Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because… — Gregory Mcdonald Copy Share Image
I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the… — Ethel Mannin Copy Share Image
Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“And yet still she watched him... he wondered why. One possibility, and by far his favorite, was that she was planning his… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“Aside from clinically-diagnosed psychopaths, I have not met one person in war who thoroughly enjoyed killing. If someone ended up bragging over… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that… — Richard Hovey Copy Share Image
If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two… — Barry White Copy Share Image
“Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due… — Avis Bohlen Copy Share Image
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this… — Robert Robideau Copy Share Image
Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Out there was a man who had murdered his daughter. And another who had stepped on her heart. His hatred should be… — Shūichi Yoshida Copy Share Image
I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. .… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
