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Quotes About Murder

Oxnard attorney Joseph Gallegos had heard that Ramirez was looking for new counsel. Gallegos had recently represented on murder charges a Mexican gang member who had been convicted and sentenced to twenty-seven years.
~ Philip Carlo
I had to admit one thing. If Haupthändler had killed the Pfarrs then he was as cool as a treasure chest in fifty fathoms of water.
~ Philip Kerr
Not since murder became the continuation of politics by other means.
~ Philip Kerr
The goal is the same—the quickest and surest destruction of this foul structure.1 In 1869 Nechaev murdered a member of his own revolutionary cell who tried to defect. He
~ Philip Pomper
she was so upset by the report of the murder that she retired to her kitchen and fell down in a fit. After briefly regaining consciousness two days later she died on Wednesday 12th.
~ Philip Sugden
Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.
~ Michael Imperioli
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.
~ Lysander Spooner
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
~ Ida B. Wells
I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
~ Karin Slaughter
I wasn't angry the night I shot him.
~ Mark David Chapman
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ive always loved the tradition of murder ballads.
~ Colter Wall
Texas did not long mourn John Kennedy. In a piece in The Nation magazine, an influential South Texan was reported to have remarked, "I don't hold with murder. But I can't say I'm not glad to see us rid of that bushy-haired bastard from Boston.
~ Jon Meacham
She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.
~ Jon Ronson
In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable.
~ Jonathan Franzen
In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Every murder needs a murderer, just as every egg invites a spoon or knife. The thin white shell would not make any sense unless breakage was part of its plan.
~ Jonathan Lee
Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he can step onto the page and burden you with his actual existence? Detective stories always have too many characters anyway. And characters mentioned early on but never sighted, just lingering offstage, take on an awful portentous quality. Better to have them gone.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Herschel was a Jew. And he was my best friend. He was his best friend. And I murdered him.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Sofiowka was found the next morning, swinging by the neck from the wooden bridge. His severed hands were hanging from strings tied to his feet, and across his chest was written, in Brod's red lipstick, ANIMAL
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Suicide was a sin. It would condemn her for eternity. But so was murder, even a just one sought out of righteous grief. The revenger always dug two graves, they said. One for his victim. One for himself. She'd never understood that old saying till now. Either way she was dead.
~ A.J. Hartley
The widespread joy that greeted Rasputin's assassination confused me. No matter what crimes the starets had committed, I was not accustomed to the idea of rejoicing at a man's death, even less at his murder.
~ Élisabeth Gille
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
~ Abraham Lincoln