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Quotes About Murder

I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
George Orwell has written that "political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."1
~ Unknown
This written instruction, unlike any document ever discovered about the Holocaust, connects Hitler directly and in writing to a murder operation, the so-called Euthanasia Action. Known bureaucratically as T4, an abbreviation of the street address of its main office after April 1940, at Tiergartenstrasse Nr. 4, in the center of Berlin,
~ Unknown
the average cost of murder per head ultimately came out to about two German pfennig (pennies) a person, which is to say less than one U.S. cent in 1942.
~ Unknown
material motivations for murder (in fact, I contend that they were secondary to ideological motives).
~ Unknown
He remembered a conversation he'd once had with a Chief Constable some years back, when he asked the Chief if in his experience he believed there was such a thing as the 'perfect murder'. The Chief had replied that there was. 'It's the one we never hear about,' he said.
~ Peter James
Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
~ Genesis 4:8
And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brotherís keeper?”
~ Genesis 4:9
“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
~ Genesis 4:15
You shall not murder.
~ Exodus 20:13
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
~ Exodus 21:12
But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.
~ Exodus 21:14
If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
~ Numbers 35:16
Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
~ Numbers 35:17
If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
~ Numbers 35:18
The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
~ Numbers 35:19
Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,
~ Numbers 35:20
or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.
~ Numbers 35:21
and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed
~ Numbers 35:27
If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.
~ Numbers 35:30
You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
~ Numbers 35:31
You shall not murder.
~ Deuteronomy 5:17
If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
~ Deuteronomy 19:11
If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
~ Deuteronomy 21:1