Enemy Quote by Sylvia Plath

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart…

— Sylvia Plath

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the…

— Honore de Balzac

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a…

— Anonymous

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

— Charles Dickens

Ultimately, the thing that kills or saves a person is not a gun or a knife, but a heart of a person.

— Anonymous

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded.…

— Emile M. Cioran

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The…

— Jeff Cooper

“ The Criminal Element spoke often, and passionately, about the nefarious activities that every human being is capable of. Not only did it insist…

— Kate DiCamillo

I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally,…

— Karl Marlantes

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

— George W. Bush

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

— Holly Near

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

— Honore de Balzac