Murderer Quotes
315 quotes by 267 authors
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Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to…
— John Green
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If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel,"…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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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
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The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he…
— Alexander Berkman
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I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and…
— Clay Allison
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Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level…
— Kofi Annan
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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
— Remy de Gourmont
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Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does;…
— Wendell Phillips
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I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.
— John Philpot Curran
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If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers,…
— John C. McAdams
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They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being…
— Eugene V. Debs
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You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark…
— Nick Nolte
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I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
— Richard Pryor
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People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play…
— Perry King
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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and…
— Peter Straub
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Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,…
— Henry Grady Weaver
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