Quotes About Murder Victims

#1. According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

Alafair Burke

#2. The hero of 'Dark Powers' can touch murder victims and read their last memories.

Ruth Glick

#3. He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.

John Sayles

#4. The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Godfried Danneels

#5. Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it's going to pass through nine murder victims.

Bill Bryson

#6. The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior," I said. "Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.

Tasha Alexander

#7. The black homicide rate is seven times that of whites, and the George Zimmermans of the world are not the reason. Some 90 percent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. Why should we care more about black criminals than their black victims?

Jason L. Riley

#8. How 'bout a cheer for all those bad girls?
And all those boys that play that rock and roll?
They love it like you love Jesus,
It does the same thing to their souls.

Tom Petty

#9. I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.

Neon Hitch

#10. People who murder in the name of God not only kill their victims, they kill God, too.

Dennis Prager

#11. Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood, or else you're nothing!

Rita Hayworth

#12. The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do? To kill your victims? But they already had the seed of death in them; all you could do was to hasten its fruition by a year or two.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. Don't let writers block push you around. Figure out what the problem is,whether it's with the ms or it's in your personal life, and face it head on. Don't stop writing. Just try really hard to work through it.

Darynda Jones

#14. War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

Alva Myrdal

#15. There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Toby Jones

#16. Who the hell do you think you are?" I snapped.
He grinned and gave me a wink as he said, "Alec Slater, your next - or only - great fuck."
Was he for real?
"You're about to be Alec Slater - murder victim - if you don't shut that hole in your face!

L.A. Casey

#17. Your soul is drenched black with the blood of your victims, my dear, and that is why you can't see it. When you die, that heavy blood filled essence will sink to the bottom of the earth where you will burn in eternity for your crimes.

Maria V. Snyder

#18. Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk ... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'

Noam Chomsky

#19. The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Aldous Huxley

#20. You will take his life but you can't take his memory out of us.

Auliq Ice

#21. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.

John Kennedy Toole

#22. Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind.

David Souter

#23. There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

William Shakespeare

#24. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Ayn Rand

#25. Is that all we mortals are? The victims of tortured irony to amuse an insane murder of gods?

A murder of crows, a murder of gods-I like that, lass.

Steven Erikson

#26. He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file's pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of violent crimes sometimes did, through the detritus of their interrupted lives.

Robert Galbraith

#27. If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

Randall Wright

#28. We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims?

Robert F. Kennedy

#29. The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.

Raymond Chandler

#30. My grandfather told me I should marry a big woman so she can keep me warm in the winter and give me shade in the summer,

Stephanie Tromly

#31. But, when you feel invisible, there is no end to the trouble you can get into.

Hilary Reyl

#32. American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

Henry A. Kissinger

#33. What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

Philip Gourevitch

#34. It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Aldous Huxley

#35. Deader than four o'clock.

Hunter Murphy

#36. Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

Salvador De Madariaga

#37. In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.

Marvin Ammori