“I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Try to be thoughtful, don't make the poor man say it; see how human he is, he has children of his own,… — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno Copy Share Image
Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“He’d discovered that most of the terrors that stalked the night weren’t really terrors at all. They were mostly like regular folks,… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
“I think that a good start at this problem is to enunciate our ethical theory that underlies our moral judgements. According to… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We think of Shots Fired as almost an autopsy of Ferguson that shows the events from every street in the house. And,… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1)… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you… — P.A. Minyard Copy Share Image
Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil.… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can never melt into a lucid,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“No one is really evil, they are just led astray by ignorance.” – Buddha Who said that Buddha was always right or… — Tomas Adam Nyapi Copy Share Image
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is… — Jean Illsley Clarke Copy Share Image
Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder - and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously. They seek… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I refuse to answer my front door because I'm convinced someone is going to murder me. I used to think that some… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
