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• If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

  John Milton

  Men, Weakness, Wickedness

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.125

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• It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

  Hannah Arendt

  Evil, Suffering, Together

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Punishment, Thieves, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

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• Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Children, People

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• I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Eye, Infinite Time

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• Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

  Tana French

  People, Littles, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Tana French from Sep 07, 2016

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• I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Freedom, Believe, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9398, Delphi Classics

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• And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

  Laini Taylor

  Eye, Next, Fence

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• In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

  James Comey

  People, Evil, Mind

  "Why I Require FBI Agents to Visit the Holocaust Museum". Speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2015.

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• The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Names, Blue

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.146, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Air, Hands

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.

  Richard Whately

  Kings, Lying, Gun

  Richard Whately (1860). “Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences”, p.38

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• And whoever forces himself to love anybody
  begets a murderer in his own body.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Body, Force

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
  the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
  their bright ironical names
  like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth

  Robert Hayden

  Kindness, Moving, Dark

  Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.166, University of Michigan Press

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• The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind.

  Josephus

  Children, Law, Abortion

  Flavius Josephus (2015). “Writings of Josephus: Book 2”, p.283, Lulu.com

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• We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

  James Connolly

  Children, Men, Long

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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• Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible circumstances could be capable of something like that? So it's about not judging people before really considering what the circumstance was and that not all murderers are created equal. We have a tendency in our society to just say murder? Cut and dried. Go away forever. Or maybe you should have the electric chair yourself.

  Jack Black

  Cutting, Should Have, Judging People

  "Actor Jack Black". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2012.

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• Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Stupid, Zimbabwe, Rights

  Interview with Financial Times, April 10, 2007.

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• Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Offensive

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.

  Allen C. Guelzo

  Forgiveness, Mean, Doe

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• The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Movie, Brother, Play

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• I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.

  Robert Benchley

  Attitude, Games, Two

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.24, Glendower Media

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• ... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Two, Suffering

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• I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Creating, Guilt

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• Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

  Katherine Applegate

  Mosquitoes, Earth, Mass

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