Quotes 21 till 40 of 58.
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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
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Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
Weg der geesten (1996) 30 -
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
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Now there is no murder without a motive.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) -
Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
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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.
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One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
Politics and the English Language (1945) -
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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