Murder Quotes - Page 40

• When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.

  Paula Fox

  People, Dumb, Earth

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• Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

  Adolf Loos

  Men, Years, Criminals

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• Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Family, Mold, Heredity

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

  Jill Johnston

  Passivity Is, Dragons, Independence

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• The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural defense of his own life, or of those whom he is prompted by instinct to preserve.

  Mary Collyer

  Animal, Savages, Defense

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• murder is not polite.

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Polite

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• Murder is a plant of slow growth.

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Growth, Plant, Slow Growth

  Mignon G. Eberhart (2012). “The Chiffon Scarf”, p.127, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Zest, Rome, People

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Would Be, Answers, Slavery

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• At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During these times you could walk right into most newsrooms and commit a multiple axe murder naked, and it wouldn't get reported in the paper because the reporters and editors would all be too busy filling out prize applications.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Editors, Naked

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• If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

  Victor Hugo

  Cutting, Men, Paris

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• You may charge me with murder--or want of sense--
  (We are all of us weak at times):
  But the slightest approach to a false pretence
  Was never among my crimes!

  Lewis Carroll

  Honesty, May, Want

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Students, Horror

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.241

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• ... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

  Albert Camus

  Firsts, Crime, Habit

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• How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.

  Golda Meir

  Men, Russia, Differences

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• ... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Death, Respect

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• At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals', &c! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

  Charles Darwin (1896). “Charles Darwin's Works: The life and letters of Charles Darwin... ed. by his son, Francis Darwin. 2v”

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• There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
  And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
  The city to the soldier's rage resigned;
  Successless wars, and poverty behind;
  Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
  And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
  The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
  And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, War, Fighting

  John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer (1897). “Palamon and Arcite”

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• Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Horse, Degrees, Done

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• No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Gun, America

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• If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

  Sonny Liston

  Clay, Cassius, Liable

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• Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.

  Colum McCann

  Summer, Book, Reading

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• It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Heart, Night, Men

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• The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Betrayal, Writing

  "Q&A: Nick Cave and the Golden Reverb of Violence". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 29, 2012.

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• If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Play, Looks

  "Ethan Hawke Talks the Purge, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says About Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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