Quotes with murder

  • Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
  • Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
  • I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
  • The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
  • When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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  • Mark Twain A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Susan Sontag AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Blake Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Benjamin Tucker But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Arnold Toynbee Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Armstrong Williams Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Albert Maltz Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Upton Sinclair Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Horace Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Benjamin Tucker I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Thomas De Quincey If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Auberon Herbert If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Patricia Neal In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
    Patricia Neal
    American actress (1926 - 2010)
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  • Akhenaton Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Albert Einstein It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but murder.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • May Sarton It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • W. H. Auden It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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