Murderer Quotes - Page 7

• The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

  Janet Malcolm

  Needs, Motive

  Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.183, Vintage

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• It is not understood that before life an individual decides to
  live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the
  body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born.
  He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness
  or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will
  kill a person who does not want to die.

  Seth

  Gun, Epidemics, Self

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• The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Self, Judging

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

  Michael Howard

  Thinking, Muggers, Prison

  "Howard seeks to placate 'angry majority". The Independent, October 7, 1993.

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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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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  Tammy Bruce

  People, Care, Break

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• Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Girl, Art, Children

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• The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted. The U.S. government cannot accept that the murderers of three of its citizens go unpunished.

  Michael Kirby

  Brother, New York, Government

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• When you hear the ex-politician tell you that the reason they created the War on Drugs was to get black people and to get hippies...that to me is just as shitty as saying all Mexicans are murderers and rapists. Or all Muslims. That's what I'm paying attention to. And everybody is hedging their bets when it comes to marijuana. The government is sitting on this lie saying it's a gateway drug.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Lying, War, Hippie

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  Orson Welles

  Two, Saint, Contradiction

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Greatness, Blood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

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• Those are the murderers of art who are sitting on the top wearing crowns of fake intelligence. Let me bring them down with the power of my art, without delaying the matter further.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Art, Fake, Sitting

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• But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Prayer, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, SCM Press

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• One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

  Agatha Christie

  Facts, Rooms

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• A murderer was a worthy companion.

  Philip Pullman

  Worthy, Companion

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

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• Trent, do you have any weapons? Like a gun?” He looked at me in disgust. “You’re here to protect me,” he said as he closed the distance between us and stood beside me. “You didn’t bring a weapon?” “Yeah, I brought a weapon,” I snapped as I brought my splat gun out and aimed it at the ceiling where the sounds were coming from. “I just thought that since you’re a freaking murderer you might have a gun, too (...)

  Kim Harrison

  Distance, Gun, Ceilings

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• You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death; it is the anti-thesis of life. Hope, tortured and flayed, reason, dismembered, grinning at its limbs in its lap. Decency, raped to death... You will be a murderer and more.

  Joss Whedon

  War, Loss, Lap

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• So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.

  Patrick Ness

  Queens, Evil, Witch

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• They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

  Terry Pratchett

  Intelligent, Quality, Would Be

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.175, Random House

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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