Murderer Quotes - Page 11

• Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

  Steven Erikson

  Lying, Mean, Destiny

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• I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer.

  James Patterson

  Mother, Kids, Nudge Nudge

  "Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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• This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Dream, Cities, Bed

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

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• You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Christian, Children, Growing Up

  "Harlequin". Book by Bernard Cornwell, 2000.

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• ...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start

  Rachel Caine

  Mirrors, Looks, Might

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.32, Allison & Busby

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• Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?" Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet." "Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!

  Jill Shalvis

  Heart, Orange, Looks

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• Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Mean, Focus, Amy

  Rosemary Clement-Moore (2011). “Texas Gothic”, p.16, Random House

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• There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Justice, Important

  Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air”, Dodd Mead

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• The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thieves, Mankind, Philanthropist

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.87, 1st World Publishing

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• We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

  Blaise Pascal

  Memorial Day, War, Rivers

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• Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

  Mindy Kaling

  Successful, Want, Serials

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.47, Crown/Archetype

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• It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. It is -- we know terrorists are barbaric, and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

  Hugh Shelton

  United States, Citizens, Faces

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Suicide, Weed, Marijuana

  "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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• Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.

  Robert Ressler

  Kids, Animal, Welfare

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• Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

  Mark Twain

  Block, Sleep, Names

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• Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

  Emma Goldman

  Patriotism, Training, Principles

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• Life - life - let there be life!
  Better a thousand times the roaring hours
  When wave and wind,
  Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
  From the Avenger at his heel,
  Storm through the desolate fastnesses
  And wild waste places of the world!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Wind, Storm

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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  Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Knives, Differences

  "Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change". Book by Robert B. Seidensticker, 2009.

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• I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Fun, People

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• Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

  Caroline Norton

  Children, Practice, Abortion

  "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.

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• This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Loss, Men

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”

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• She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. He could find food, and show her how to reach Oxford, and those were powers that were useful, but he might still have been untrustworthy or cowardly. A murderer was a worthy companion. She felt as safe with him as she'd done with Iorek Byrnison the armoured bear.

  Philip Pullman

  Oxford, Enemy, Done

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Silly, Boys

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• I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.

  Clay Allison

  Country, Cowboy, Men

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• The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?

  Alexander Berkman

  Country, Stars, War

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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