Murder Quotes

1327 quotes by 939 authors

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. — Oscar Wilde
Remember, the death penalty is murder. — Robert Drew
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we… — Thabo Mbeki
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi
Murders came with smiles, shooting people was no big deal for us Goodfellas. — Henry Hill
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only… — Stephen King
Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't… — Ernest Gaines
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the… — Paul Keating
There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them. That's… — Noam Chomsky
The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable. — Alberto Fujimori
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are… — George Bernard Shaw
We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons… — Justin Martyr
Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer. — Hermann Goring
The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally… — Julius Streicher
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. — Albert Einstein
Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still… — Andrea Dworkin
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis… — Alexander Berkman
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which… — Leo Tolstoy
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are… — Elizabeth Bowen

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