Top 100 Quotes About Murder
#2. I am purely evil;
Hear the thrum
of my evil engine;
Evilly I come.
The stars are thick as flowers
In the meadows of July;
A fine night for murder
Winging through the sky.
Ethel Mannin
#3. The average American child, by age eighteen, is estimated to have seen eighteen thousand murders and two hundred thousand acts of violence on television. The "death play" of popular video games is accelerating these numbers to ever-higher levels.
Richard J. Borden
#4. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Thomas Sowell
#5. The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#6. Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready to do murder for their sacred cause.
Arnold Bennett
#7. Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.
Farrah Naseem
#8. A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.
William J. Clinton
#9. It seemed a bit euphemistic to call a murder an incident, almost as if it were in the same category as a purse snatching.
Joyce Tremel
#10. Whether we're stuffing our faces with Kogi tacos or playing a pickup game of football outside the stages, there's never a shortage of fun behind the scenes on 'Murder In The First.'
Ian Anthony Dale
#11. There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.
M.F. Moonzajer
#12. Indianapolis, Indiana," said Constant, "is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian - " said Constant, "that's the kind of people for me." Salo's
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#13. With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
Kate Millett
#14. She wears only black-rimmed glasses, and is holding a paperback titled Murder and Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junction. Her light
Dennis Hart
#15. Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
#16. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
Carl Sagan
#17. No," he said. "That's not magic, Lila. That's just murder.
V.E Schwab
#18. Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.
Osama Bin Laden
#19. Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded.
Ian Svenonius
#20. They are commiting murder who merely live.
May Sarton
#21. As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.
Pythagoras
#22. I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.
Mary Stewart
#23. Like a submarine ejecting ballast, he bobbed to the surface as another sense pulled his eyelids all the way open like roller blinds in the old cartoons.
Andrew Barrett
#24. Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion.
Jim Morrison
#25. Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs.
Bryan Fields
#26. What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)
Rosa Brooks
#27. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.
John Davies Of Hereford
#28. Usually we think a person is obligated to do something that would benefit many people, but what if that "something" is committing murder? Which is more important, doing good - or not doing wrong?
William Irwin
#29. If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
Antonin Scalia
#30. All the same, we should get to bed," whispered Hermione. "It wouldn't do to oversleep tomorrow."
"No," agreed Ron. "A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom's mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding.
J.K. Rowling
#31. No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.
William Shakespeare
#32. Never met Ahhh, don't know him, don't care how big he is-if he's standing in our way? I'ma murder the son of a bitch" ~ Trez
'The Shadows' page 205
J.R. Ward
#33. She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.
Liane Moriarty
#34. For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
Christiane Amanpour
#35. The bloody-minded murder those whom they envy, and for what they covet.
Dean Koontz
#36. Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws ... It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.
Mike Royko
#37. A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.
John Dos Passos
#38. As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'
Mark Billingham
#39. And if the characters haven't died, they carry on murdering to this very day ...
Rebekka Kricheldorf
#40. Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.
Nora Roberts
#41. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Yanko Tsvetkov
#42. Everything about Enzo whispers of danger, of murder in the name of righteousness. I'm desperate to pull away. I ache for more. I tremble uncontrollably, caught in the middle.
Marie Lu
#43. What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add.
Charles Manson
#44. If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.
James McBride
#46. In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love
Euripides
#47. In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States.
-- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gennaro F. Vito
#48. Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita
Laurell K. Hamilton
#49. War is sanctioned murder, no matter what side you're on.
Sarah J. Maas
#50. The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
Aaron Klein
#51. I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.
Snoop Dogg
#52. Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.
David Feherty
#53. Madness doesn't get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.
Benjamin R. Smith
#54. Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.
Graham Greene
#55. 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
Leo Tolstoy
#56. Four years later, after Mathias had killed a further four women, and he could see that all the murders were an attempt to reconstruct the murder of his mother, he concluded that he was mad.
Jo Nesbo
#57. Rape is, to me, no different than murder. It kills a part of the victim's soul.
Jonathan Maberry
#58. Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons," Shinzo told her. "Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that's why you're here. To do something extraordinary.
Kaylin McFarren
#59. Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.
Donald L. Hicks
#62. No offense, kid, but I have a strong desire to murder your uncle with extreme prejudice." "No offense taken," I said. "I'm tempted to help you.
Rick Riordan
#63. Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman dressed to murder. There was probably something deeply twisted about that. Lucky for me, negligees were never my thing.
Ilona Andrews
#64. Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
Rajib Mukherjee
#65. Bring me the head of Elton John ... which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.
Steven Morrissey
#66. I whispered across the bars to Jackaby as I rose, "Shall I tell them the truth?"
"Have you killed anyone?" he asked, quietly.
"No, of course not!"
"Then I can't imagine why you shouldn't.
William Ritter
#67. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.
A.E. Samaan
#68. In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.
John Thaw
#69. There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion.
Cassandra Clare
#70. I have read all of James Patterson's Books except for the last 5.I have over 80 of his books.
Bridget Of Sweden
#71. 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Nathan Fillion
#72. The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin's critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.
Luke Harding
#73. Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.
Justine Larbalestier
#75. But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.
Donna Tartt
#76. Murder in and of itself was not engaging; it was the drive to kill, the human factor, the fervors and furies motivating the dreadful act that rendered it compelling. Alice
Kate Morton
#78. If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
Martin Luther
#79. 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
#80. Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
James Joyce
#81. 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
#82. With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour it, as though ravenous with an abominable hunger to butcher them. But this one, could he then love her, and not kill her?
Emile Zola
#83. Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.
Susan Howatch
#84. Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.
Meryl Sawyer
#85. So the story of Wild Fox Kang's attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the 1980s, when Chinese scholars discovered in Japanese archives the testimony of the designated killer, Bi, which established beyond doubt the existence of the plot.
Jung Chang
#86. One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.
Demetri Martin
#87. The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.
Cesare Beccaria
#88. Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.
Knut Hamsun
#89. A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself
Mother Teresa
#90. After the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth
Leo Tolstoy
#92. Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
Elizabeth Bowen
#93. One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
Saul Bellow
#94. A library is a room where the murders take place.
J.B. Morton
#95. Murder could be a psychological alternative to suicide.
Dorothy Simpson
#96. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
#97. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
Pat Brown
#99. If Alice had a post-engagement policy, it was to pass.
Alexis Coe
#100. There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.
Stephanie Bond
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