Murderous Quotes
96 quotes by 90 authors
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
— Maya Angelou
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On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes…
— Marc Racicot
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We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a…
— Octavia Butler
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On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand,…
— Jim Butcher
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Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a…
— Lindsey Graham
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When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of…
— Boaz Lavie
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Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time,…
— Claude Monet
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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many…
— James Taylor
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman…
— Oriana Fallaci
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No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous?…
— Michio Kaku
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I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.
— Michael Moore
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My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous…
— Shimon Peres
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never…
— Janet Fitch
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I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.
— Lorrie Moore
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I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of…
— Steve Almond
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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death…
— Yann Martel
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
— Will Durant
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Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
— Thomas Merton
Who Wrote These Murderous Quotes
90 authors contributed a total of 96 Murderous Quotes, led by these top contributors: