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Quotes About Murder

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die ,die..
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
The lust for murder is not a rational thing. In queens, it is an instinctual response.
~ Laurie R. King
You think he just died of natural causes?" "This is New York. Murder's a natural cause in this city.
~ Lawrence Block
He'd disposed of her corpse by feeding it to the hogs.
~ Lawrence Block
Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"
~ Bex Taylor-Klaus
People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.
~ Sam Harris
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
~ Edmund Burke
I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!
~ Tupac Shakur
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
~ Abraham Lincoln
In population losses on this scale, the toll is usually a composite of figures from one or more of four closely connected sources: (1) murder; (2) starvation, exhaustion, and exposure; (3) disease; and (4) a plummeting birth rate. In the worst period in the Congo, the long rubber boom, it came in abundance from all four:
~ Adam Hochschild
In the Congo, as in Russia, mass murder had a momentum of its own. Power is tempting, and in a sense no power is greater than the ability to take someone's life. Once under way, mass killing is hard to stop; it becomes a kind of sport, like hunting.
~ Adam Hochschild
An ancient English law made it a crime to witness a murder or discover a corpse and not raise a "hue and cry." But
~ Adam Hochschild
CLYTEMNESTRA What ails thee, raising this ado for us? SLAVE I say the dead are come to slay the living.
~ Aeschylus
La anciana descubrió que le gustaba. Le agradaba la sensación de asesinar. Se le ocurrió que matar podría ser un mal universalmente satisfactorio.
~ Al Dempsey
But if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends are often equally bloody. We're familiar with political love that ends in tyranny, where a ruler's firm conviction that he has the true interests of his nation at heart ends up lending him the confidence to murder without qualms (and 'for their own good') all who disagree with him. Romantic lovers are similarly inclined to vent their frustration on dissenters and heretics.
~ Alain de Botton
Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.
~ Alan Moore
Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can never melt into a lucid, clear suspension. Our detective fiction tells us otherwise: everything is just meat and cold ballistics. Provide a murderer, a motive and a means, and you have solved the crime. Using this method, the solution to the Second World War is as follows: Hitler. The German economy. Tanks. Thus, for convenience, we reduce the complex events.
~ Alan Moore
About From Hell) The idea was to do a documentary comic about a murder. I concluded that there was a way of approaching the [Ripper] murders in a completely different way. I changed the emphasis from 'whodunit' to 'what happened'. I'd seen advertisements for Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. A holistic detective? You wouldn't just have to solve the crime, you'd have to solve the entire world that that crime happened in. That was the twist that I needed.
~ Alan Moore
Who did it? Tell me who did it, you slime! Who murdered Hollis? You tell them! You tell them they're dead! You know how much firepower I have floating out there? I oughtta take out this entire rat-hole neighborhood! I oughtta. . . oughtta break your neck, you. . . you. . . Oh god damn. God damn. God damn. God damn!
~ Alan Moore
Aye, but the hand that had murdered had once pressed the mother's breast into the thirsting mouth, had stolen into the father's hand when they went out into the dark. Aye, but the murderer afraid of death had once been a child afraid of the night.
~ Alan Paton
He missed the way Londoners sounded as he killed them – like they were offended that anyone would even dare.
~ Derek Landy
Sanctuary business," Valkyrie pointed out. "It's just a murder. Cameron Light didn't even work for the Sanctuary." "It is an official Sanctuary investigation, which
~ Derek Landy
Robbery is not just the robbery of money or human flesh; it involves the soul murder of cultures which will soon die if they have no more songs to sing.
~ Diamanda Galas
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer