Murder Quotes
1327 quotes by 948 authors
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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…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
— John Adams
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or…
— Saint Basil
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder,…
— Jack Benny
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
— Alfred Adler
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
— Alfred Adler
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly…
— Annie Besant
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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery.…
— Bono
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
— Edmund Burke
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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
— George W. Bush
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The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in…
— Nick Cave
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
— Agatha Christie
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror,…
— Harlan Coben
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One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know…
— Diablo Cody
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
— Jean Anouilh
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As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind…
— Tom Araya
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An attitude can murder just as easily as an ax.
— Woodrow M. Kroll
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics…
— Aberjhani
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