Murderer Quotes - Page 7

• Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.

  Errol Morris

  Miscarriage, Light, Dna

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ideas, People, Ruthless

  "Awareness : The Perils and Oppurtunities of Reality". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 7), 1992.

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• The death penalty makes us all murderers.

  Dean Smith

  Death Penalty, Penalties

  "Dean Smith: On the Passing of a Death Penalty Abolitionist" by Dave Zirin, www.thenation.com. February 9, 2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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• My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.

  Adam Braver

  Government, Political, Guessing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early.... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.

  John Lee Mahin

  Children, Clever, Names

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• To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.

  Petrus Borel

  Order, Ideas, Desire

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• Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth.

  Sy Montgomery

  Nature, Animal, People

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• I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me. When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him-by force.

  John Galt

  Men, Thinking, Wish

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• I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.

  Richard Marshall

  Book, Writing, Years

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?

  Boris Johnson

  War, Order, Russia

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• For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

  Ann B. Davis

  Hate, People, Mind

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• People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.

  Ming-Na Wen

  Moving, People, Forgiving

  Source: collider.com

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• To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Work, Character

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• As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

  Ernst Toller

  Kings, Hero, Boys

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

  Jean Rostand

  Inspirational, Men, Killing A Man

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• To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every night. He was Bhai's destroyer, Amma Sain's tormentor, Ma's humbler and the people's exploiter. He was the rapist of orphans and the fiend that fed on the weak. But over and above all this, he was known to be the man closest to Allah, the one who could reach Him and save us.

  Tehmina Durrani

  Daughter, Husband, Book

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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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• I think ultimately one would say that the most difficult part of the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer is the balancing of the main character. To get him being so ambivalent in his whole conception.

  Tom Tykwer

  Character, Thinking, Difficult

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I saw Ben Whishaw playing Hamlet at the Old Vic and straight away had a very strong sense that he might be the end of a very, very long road of searching for the right guy. He did an amazing audition, where it all came across this, instinctive feeling that he obviously had for the character in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer.

  Tom Tykwer

  Strong, Character, Long

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Alan Rickman has a huge presence in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer and takes an enormous amount of space with no effort. I wanted somebody to leave behind a strong impact and be a threat for Grenouille. When Alan takes to the screen, we immediately know there's an intelligent, instinctive and powerful force, so if he's pursuing our main guy then our main guy is in trouble.

  Tom Tykwer

  Strong, Powerful, Intelligent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wanted to create a believable feeling for 18th Century reality in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. I didn't want this typical film feel of strange people in strange costumes, not really knowing what to do or how to move. If you put an 18th Century costume on Alan Rickman, it looks like he's been wearing it forever because he inhabits the stuff. He is a character that can really travel in time as an actor and transform into this 18th Century person with seemingly no effort.

  Tom Tykwer

  Moving, Character, Reality

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• With Dustin Hoffman, I just enjoyed the fact he was this flamboyent and very ironic person that still followed my desire to make Baldini in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer not simply a joke, or the funny guy, but also a personality and a character.

  Tom Tykwer

  Character, Guy, Personality

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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