Murderous Quotes
96 quotes by 90 authors
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
— Edward Abbey
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a…
— Jean Baudrillard
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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
— Aeschylus
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
— Thomas Paine
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or…
— Iris Murdoch
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Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
— Albert Einstein
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital…
— Ambrose
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...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old…
— Karl Marx
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Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No…
— Rajneesh
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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each…
— Edouard Daladier
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough…
— Freeman Dyson
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing,…
— Harold Lasswell
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It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object,…
— Thomas Paine
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter…
— Adrienne Rich
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I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry…
— Sheila Heti
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It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
— Jim Broadbent
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Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat…
— John F. Kerry
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We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of…
— George W. Bush
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder…
— Lord Acton
Who Wrote These Murderous Quotes
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