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• Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

  William Shakespeare

  Compassion, Juliet, Mercy

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.98

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• One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

  Beilby Porteus

  Hero, Numbers, Villain

  William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283

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• A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Good Man, Ordinary

  "The Ministry of Fear". Book by Graham Greene. Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 1, 1943.

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• People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Respect, Hate, Thinking

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Paul Cronin, 2002.

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• Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they might murder you. One would be hard pressed to find another group of people on this planet whose music is a surrogate for murder. One would be hard pressed to another group of people on this planet whose life is a proxy for death.

  Frank B. Wilderson III

  Aka, Play, People

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• Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. "Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?" "Even then.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, New Shoes, Trying

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  Nancy Reagan

  Believe, Abortion, Want

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• Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ordinary, Doe, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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• My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.247, Princeton University Press

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• The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Death

  Sigmund Freud (1922). “Reflections”

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• The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

  Tryon Edwards

  Death, Dying, Assassins

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• In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Forgiveness, God, Jobs

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• Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Acting, Purpose

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

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• One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hero, Villain, Millions

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• It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

  Billy Wilder

  Smell, Hot, Afternoon

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• To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

  Ayn Rand

  Accessories, Victim, Torture

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.435, Penguin

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• As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

  Robert Graves

  Tree, Pears, Cases

  Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Abstract, Triggers

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 2, 1948.

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• There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Roots, Evil, Goes On

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

  John Churton Collins

  Suicide, Opportunity, Repentance

  Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins Appendix VII (quoted by L. C. Collins)

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• The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Punishment, Long, Unfair

  1957 In the Sunday Times, 24 Feb.

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• The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Cute, Boys, Murder Victims

  Raymond Chandler (1983). “The Chandler Collection: Pearls are a nuisance ; Smart-aleck kill ; Killer in the rain”

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• Failure to love is almost like murder.

  Boris Pasternak

  Love Is

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.

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