Murder Quotes - Page 5

• Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

  Tim Dorsey

  People, Cop, Letting Things Go

  Tim Dorsey (2009). “Nuclear Jellyfish: A Novel”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.

  Charles Bowden

  Coffee, Reality, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

  Anne Frank

  War, People, Rage

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• You also, O son Brutus.
  [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

  Julius Caesar

  Son, Brutus, Brutes

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• The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, War, Dirty

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

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• There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Rich, Poor

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• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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• I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get into the ring for real, even the worst heavyweight in the world is going to murder you. You've just got to appreciate the pain and the suffering and the glory and skill that goes into what they do. That's why I love the sport so much.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Sports, Pain, Real

  Source: www.mensfitness.co.uk

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• Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Animal, Men, Steps

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• confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

  Cornel West

  Soul, Form, Insidious

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• It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Fall, Errors

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 146, 1799.

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• The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Pain, Thinking, Bird

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• One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

  Edward Young

  Art, Fear, War

  The Love of Fame Satire 7, l. 55 (1725 - 1728) See Porteus 1; Jean Rostand 1

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• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

  W. H. Auden

  America, Scary, Too Much

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• I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lying, Writing, Heart

  Preface to the second edition of "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" by Kenneth Rexroth, 1953.

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• All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.

  Irina Bokova

  Government, Voice, Democracy

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• Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

  James Russell Lowell

  War, Want, Flats

  'The Biglow Papers' (First Series, 1848) no. 1 'A Letter'

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• Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

  Jim Morrison

  Lying, Bleeding, Sheets

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• I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

  Euripides

  Love, Strong, Simple

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
  Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
  Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
  The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
  Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
  Chief nourisher in life's feast...

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Sleep, Insomnia

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

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• The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder.

  Inge Genefke

  Evil, Soul, Identity

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• In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Real, Men

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Scum, Way

  1597-8 King Henry to Harry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.3, l.254-5.

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• It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

  May Sarton

  Love, Privilege, Do Not Fear

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance.

  Terrelle Pryor

  Mean, Thinking, Second Chance

  "Controversy seems to shadow QB". www.foxnews.com. December 29, 2010.

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