Quotes About Murder

I sell mayhem, scandal, murder and doom.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours." —Sigmund Freud

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind," wrote George Orwell in "Politics and the English Language." Orwell

Misssions and the California Mission system should not be regarded as a symbol of a golden era in California's history. Missions should be regarded for what they were, as death camps- where people were enslaved, tortured and murdered.

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it. ("New York Blues")

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power. ("Mind Over Murder")

The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent. Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay. She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

How simple death without weapons was. How safe for the killer. ("Mind Over Murder")

One sometimes kills for the love of it.

on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

I thought about how you could kill a victim only once, but how a crime scene could die a thousand deaths.

We might be a bit slow on some things down in the South, but we know murder.

Murder scene," Melissa drawled. "But sure, you two go ahead and make out like that's a normal thing that people do during times like this. Like I'm not standing right here and seeing a dozen red flags fly.

The darkness of the night could hide so much. He'd always enjoyed killing in that darkness.

I really didn't need a fed to tell me that," Dane muttered, aggravated. He'd been working as a cop for more than ten years. "We might be a bit slow on some things down in the South, but we know murder.

Vaterland nennt sich der Staat immer dann, wenn er sich anschickt, auf Menschenmord auszugehen. / A state always calls itself fatherland when it is about to commit murder.

I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

California has legislatively barred alimony payments to a dependent spouse who has attempted to murder the supporting spouse. Cal. Fam. Code § 4324.

Tim says he never suggested a historical romance. If I did write one nobody would read it. But why not try my hand at a detective story – a thriller with a murder and buried treasure, etc. – he will help me with it if I like.

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.

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.

According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.