Murder Quotes

• Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

  Rae Foley

  Heart, Civilization, Strikes

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• Murder will out, this my conclusion.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Literature, Conclusion

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• Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Revenge, Hate

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• Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mistake, Humor

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.19.

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• Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

  Lucy Freeman

  Ultimate, Megalomania, Apex

  Lucy Freeman (1955). “"Before I Kill More ..."”

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• Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

  Terry Hayes

  Planning, Arrested

  Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse. As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.

  Aberjhani

  Love, War, Exercise

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

  Stephen King

  Potato Chips, Potatoes, Just One

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• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  Octave Mirbeau

  And Love, Intensity, Born

  "Garden of Tortures". Book by Octave Mirbeau, 1899.

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• The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer

  Varg Vikernes

  Suffering, Negative, Rock N Roll

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• It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cutting, Murder Victims, Two

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• If you are a reporter trying to find out what the hell's going on in government now, you have a devilish time. It is murder to set up an interview. It is murder to get someone's phone number. It's murder to be able to get in and talk to someone without a handler being present to chill it, or who doesn't insist upon questions in advance.

  Ted Gup

  Numbers, Phones, Government

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Murder begins where self-defense ends.

  Georg Buchner

  Self, Defense, Ends

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, Order, Apples

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• Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Death, Hypocrite, Men

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Strange, Hamlet Revenge

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 27

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• There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Hatred, Cry

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

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• It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

  Louise Doughty

  Reading, Cozy, Feels

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• The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Animal, Differences, Literature

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• Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Literature, Killing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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• There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

  Jodi Picoult

  Evil People, White, Black

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• An attitude can murder just as easily as an ax.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Attitude

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• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, Truth, People

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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