Conventional Quote by Graham Greene

A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact,…

— William C. Brown

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

— James Alan Fox

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of…

— Bernhard Schlink

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

— Alice Sebold

Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day. Killers may…

— Park Dietz

“Murder is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

— Anonymous

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public…

— Saint Augustine

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in his path,…

— Agatha Christie

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

— Ugo Betti

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still…

— Saint Augustine