Homicidal Quotes

• Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.

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• Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Hussein, Weapons

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

  Christina Ricci

  Looks, Costumes, Maniacs

  "Fictional character: Wednesday". "The Addams Family", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  General Butt Naked

  Soccer, Teenager, Sacrifice

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• I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Silence, Wish, Contentment

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic books series by Jhonen Vasquez, August 1995 – January 1997.

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• There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Long

  "Fictional character: Johnny". "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, Volume 7, 1995 - 1997.

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• Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

  Agatha Christie

  People, Quiet, Fellows

  Agatha Christie (1986). “And then there were none”, Pocket

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• He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Military, War, Men

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• Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

  Rick Yancey

  Men, Maniacs

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Army, People

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• You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Brother, Father, Years

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• Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Rights, Differences

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• You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.

  Melina Marchetta

  Fire, Fruitcake

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.

  Rob Thurman

  Dancing, Vision, Bed

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.14, Penguin

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• God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Expression, Default

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

  Donald Sutherland

  Artistic, Casts, Wells

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

  Sidney Poitier

  Self, Flames, Trying

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• Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

  Sue Grafton

  Believe, Police, Dinner

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum

  Janet Evanovich

  Bait, Plums, Stephanie Plum

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• He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

  John Connolly

  Fun, Talking, Class

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Let's not get naughty. How about homicidal instead?

  Lora Leigh

  Naughty

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• Do Mom and Dad know you’re dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug) No, and if you tell them, I’ll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Dad, Dating

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• I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.

  Greer Garson

  Character, Feel Better, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

  A. P. Herbert

  Men, Smoking, Rude

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