Quotes About Murder

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'

I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

Let me ask you both something. Is there anything strange that's been going on around the inn lately? I mean besides the murder and theft.

Murder had come back to The Hatteras West Inn, and it was a most unwelcome guest.

Besides the sinfulness of the acts from their opposition to the law of God, anyone, be he a subject of this diocese or an extern, who, within the diocese of Cork, shall organise or take part in ambushes or kidnappings, or shall otherwise be guilty of murder or attempted murder, shall incur by the very fact the censure of excommunication.

it was largely by military means that Lloyd George sought to proceed: nasty means at that. The British too had their 'squads'. Each side used the other's terminology: 'murder gangs'.

We return a verdict of wilful murder against David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England; Lord French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Ian MacPherson, late Chief Secretary of Ireland; Acting Inspector General Smith of the RIC, Divisional Inspector Clayton of the RIC; DI Swanzy and some unknown members of the RIC.8

My personal safety does not count as a factor in the question of Ireland's rights. I thank no one for refraining from murdering me.

Big John said. "He stabbed his sister in the tits in this house. Right upstairs.

To say that there is no causal connection between the acts of appellant and the death of Madge Oberholtzer, and that the treatment accorded her by appellant had no causal connection with the death of Madge Oberholtzer would be a travesty of justice," the court majority wrote in 1932, upholding the murder conviction.

The percentage of the world's murder victims who are killed in libraries is statistically negligible.

Garry Disher (Australia) The Dragon Man Kittyhawk Down Snapshot Chain of Evidence Blood Moon Wyatt Whispering Death Port Vila Blues

Magdalen Nabb (Italy) Death of an Englishman Death of a Dutchman Death in Springtime Death in Autumn The Marshal and the Madwoman The Marshal and the Murderer The Marshal's Own Case The Marshal Makes His Report The Marshal at the Villa Torrini Property of Blood Some Bitter Taste The Innocent Vita Nuova

We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other some winter night before bedtime, stirring poison into our cups of whiskey-spiked chamomile tea, wearing party hats. Then, nervous about our double homicide, we could lie in bed together, holding hands again, frightened and waiting, still wondering, after all these years, if we even believed in our own souls.

Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.

In the middle of Europe in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered some fourteen million people. The place where all of the victims died, the bloodlands, extends from central Poland to western Russia, through Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States.

When the mass murder of Jews is limited to an exceptional place and treated as the result of impersonal procedures, then we need not confront the fact that people not very different from us murdered other people not very different from us at close quarters.

AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES USUALLY include a special riot police force whose task is to disperse citizens who seek to protest, and a secret state police force whose assignments include the murder of dissenters or others designated as enemies.

All in all, regular policemen murdered more Jews than the Einsatzgruppen. Many of them had no special preparation for this task. They found themselves in an unknown land, they had their orders, and they did not want to look weak. In the rare cases when they refused these orders to murder Jews, policemen were not punished.

considered these states to be defunct. Germany was also willing to take and murder French Jews, but only under the condition that French authorities first stripped such people of citizenship. This the French authorities at first showed a certain inclination to do, although complications of law and bureaucracy delayed the process considerably.

Hitler foresaw a "resolution of the Polish problem" by the murder of those who might be regarded as fully human.

No accumulation of good, no matter how vast, undoes an evil; no rescue of the future, no matter how successful, undoes a murder in the past.