Murder Quotes

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Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps,… — Philip Kaufman
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they… — Pete Hamill
I always had a fetish for murder and death. — David Berkowitz
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. — James Ellroy
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved… — Jim Garrison
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem. — Ronald Blythe
The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft,… — Albert J. Nock
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murderâ€”immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouseâ€”humanity. — Octave Mirbeau
All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented… — Albert Pierrepoint
When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives. — Paul Gerhardt
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to… — Alex Kozinski
Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder. — Garry McCarthy
I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. — Jane Badler
I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all. — Haj Amin al-Husseini
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything… — Catherine Crier
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep… — Maria Monk
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the… — Robley Wilson
You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder… — Thomas Young

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