Murderer Quotes - Page 5

• Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Cells, Voice, Solitude

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• We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

  Wendy Kaminer

  Cutting, Hands, Thieves

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• in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

  Delia Ephron

  Boring, Grew Up, Bores

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog: (Etc.)”, p.55, Penguin

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• Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.

  Brenda Ueland

  Helping Others, People, Imagination

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

  Aaron Hill

  Law, Reason, Shock

  Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50

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• The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?

  Shana Alexander

  Sports, Running, Hero

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• I vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that gets police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion.

  David Letterman

  Home, Gun, Order

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• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blood, Punishment, Islands

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.474, Cambridge University Press

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• Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Medicine, Age

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• Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk

  Jeru the Damaja

  New York, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: D. Original

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• If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

  Harry Hamlin

  Gay, Play, Doe

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• I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

  Peter Bergen

  Thoughtful, People, Kind

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• I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

  Samuel West

  Play, Soldier, Mass

  "The Guardian profile: Sam West" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Self, Judging

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• I'm being accused of being a murderer! I'M being ACCUSED of being a molester!... They say my idea of a fun day is a dark lonely field and the urunj of a car, and a large stick and a roll of duct tape! My MOM shops at Wal-Mart! She gets calls all the time now; she's worried about me! I'm not the most emotionally stable guy in the world; I'll admit that... I do have some problems, but my God, I'm not a murderer!

  Al Snow

  Mom, Lonely, Fun

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• Donald Trump is horrendous, but he is also honest. Both Presidents [Bill] Clinton and [Barak] Obama were great speakers, but unrepentant mass murderers.

  Andre Vltchek

  President, Bills, Honest

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

  Charles Schumer

  Assault Weapons, People, Use

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• The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that too, but it couldn't take it after awhile. It's not the kind of job you can give to conscripts who are not trained to be murderers.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Army, People

  Source: chomsky.info

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• The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

  Ayn Rand

  Mother, Children, Passion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.745, Hamilton Books

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• Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I said, "Thank you," and then they said to me, "Could you talk some more?" And I said, "Why?" and they answered, "Most of us are in solitary confinement, so the moment you finish talking, they take us back to our cells. We like hanging out here together."

  Etgar Keret

  Reading, Cells, Talking

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.

  Richard Marshall

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Sublime

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.

  Shimon Peres

  Believe, Fall, Victim

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• I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Play, Republican

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• If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Association, Murder, Granted

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• David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Grace, Would Be

  Source: medium.com

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