Murder Quotes - Page 37

• My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.

  Angela Lansbury

  Daughter, Watches, Used

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• We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, War, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

  Anita Roddick

  Church, Behaviour, Mosques

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• Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder - and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously. They seek to impose a heartless system of totalitarian control throughout the Middle East, and arm themselves with weapons of mass murder. . . . Their aim is to seize power in Iraq, and use it as a safe haven to launch attacks against America and the world.

  George W. Bush

  Safe Haven, Iraq, America

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Would Be, Answers, Slavery

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• No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Gun, America

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• At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During these times you could walk right into most newsrooms and commit a multiple axe murder naked, and it wouldn't get reported in the paper because the reporters and editors would all be too busy filling out prize applications.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Editors, Naked

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• If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

  Victor Hugo

  Cutting, Men, Paris

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• You may charge me with murder--or want of sense--
  (We are all of us weak at times):
  But the slightest approach to a false pretence
  Was never among my crimes!

  Lewis Carroll

  Honesty, May, Want

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Students, Horror

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.241

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• ... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

  Albert Camus

  Firsts, Crime, Habit

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• How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.

  Golda Meir

  Men, Russia, Differences

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• ... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Death, Respect

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• Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Horse, Degrees, Done

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• At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals', &c! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

  Charles Darwin (1896). “Charles Darwin's Works: The life and letters of Charles Darwin... ed. by his son, Francis Darwin. 2v”

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• People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake is good. They like it, provided the message is wrapped up a little. And they like messages saying that murder is bad, cruelty is bad, and love is love is love is love. What they can't stand is to be told it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness.

  Doris Lessing

  Art, Sex, Love Is

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Passion, Blasphemy, Stormy

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book - one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory - supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus - led to the murder of millions of innocent people.

  Ben Stein

  Reading, Book, Men

  "Ben Stein is Expelled!". Christianity Today Movies, April 15, 2008.

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• I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

  Leona Helmsley

  Children, Liars, Lying

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• My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

  Mordecai Richler

  Sweet, Spring, Self

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• Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Responsibility, Psychics

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.248, Seven Stories Press

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• A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed. In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Average, Years

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Abuse, Doe

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I was in the war. I know how to kill. I was over there. I know how to do it. I've done it before. It's no big deal. You just make an adjustment. You convince yourself it's all right. That's all. It's easy. You just slaughter them.

  Sam Shepard

  War, Done, Easy

  Sam Shepard (1976). “Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts”, p.38, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this House at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my memory.

  John Diefenbaker

  Stars, Memories, Men

  John Diefenbaker's speech in the House of Commons, May 1, 1972.

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