Murder Quotes

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder.

These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

Remember the death penalty is murder.

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

Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about.

I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.

You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I’m a psycho getting pumped up to murder the president.

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.

Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.

We're too busy busting whorehouses or solving murders. That's what makes the show so funny

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was born with a silver knife in my back.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.