Murderous Quotes
96 quotes by 90 authors
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
— Adrienne Rich
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Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
— Jane Rule
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To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion,…
— Daniel Pipes
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When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George…
— Andrew Roberts
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The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the…
— Susan McClary
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A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords…
— William McFee
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She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as…
— Jesmyn Ward
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I am sorry, but if you believe the newest death of OBL, you're stupid. Just think to yourself-they paraded Saddam's dead sons around to prove…
— Cindy Sheehan
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those…
— Albert Einstein
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The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous…
— Wendy Doniger
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Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever…
— Norman Mailer
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In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell…
— Seymour Hersh
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As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party…
— Keith Olbermann
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous…
— Karen Armstrong
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Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp…
— Eva Hoffman
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Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
— William Butler Yeats
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Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!
— Joseph Bayly
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Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
— Barbara Amiel
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Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the…
— Susan Rice
Who Wrote These Murderous Quotes
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