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Quotes About Murder

The only law we have here is the law of strength. The only justice we have must live in the hearts and minds of men. The land is hard, and so the men are hard. We make mistakes, of course, but when there is a case of murder, we try to handle the murderer so he will not kill again.
~ Louis L'Amour
Fire, and deepen Rosamond's detestation by adding another murder to your list of crimes.
~ Louisa May Alcott
She knows her life is on the line but, believe it or not, she's never been so excited! Her husband's a serial killer, and her bodice is wet with tears, but there's a chance her brothers will show up like winning lottery numbers. Which does she want more - her hair wound in the maniac's hands and her white white throat bared, or the sound of boots on marble stairs?
~ Ron Koertge
But if they had meant to murder me, the camel-lady was mysteriously murmuring to Monsignor Parr, they would not have put chocolate in the luncheon-basket; my courage returned to me at that!
~ Ronald Firbank
No jury, we knew, could convict a man on the criminal count on native evidence in a land where you can buy a murder-charge, including the corpse, all complete for fifty-four rupees
~ Rudyard Kipling
The hot wine had filled him. Under the stars he mocked me—therefore I killed him!
~ Rudyard Kipling
vault. The four bodies, one of them half-inside a
~ Ruth Rendell
I wondered if there were planets where it's okay to murder people. I decided there must be, reminding myself that in war, after all, killers are heroes.
~ Ry? Murakami
People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. Mix loneliness with stress and enervation, and all sorts of madness can occur. Anxiety increases, and in order to obliterate the anxiety, people turn to extreme sex, violence, and even murder.
~ Ry? Murakami
What a weird place this was, I thought. It felt completely isolated and, partly because of the cold, like being on another planet. I wondered if there were planets where it's okay to murder people. I decided there must be, reminding myself that in war, after all, killers are heroes.
~ Ry? Murakami
Allmählich wurde mir klar, warum Frank auf so eine dreiste Weise morden konnte, ohne verhaftet zu werden. Weil in unserem Land niemand Notiz von Fremden nimmt. Ob das in Amerika auch so war?
~ Ry? Murakami
Soon the key word to describe it is the adjective 'mass'. Thus there is mass culture and mass hysteria, mass tastes (or rather lack of taste) and mass paranoia, mass enslavement, and finally mass murder. The only hero on the world stage is the crowd, and the main feature of this crowd, this mass, is anonymity, impersonality, lack of identity, lack of a face.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
That's why my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
For if one makes faith everything, that is, makes it what it is, then, according to my way of thinking, one may speak of it without danger in our age, which hardly extravagates in the matter of faith, and it is only by faith one attains likeness to Abraham, not by murder. If one makes love a transitory mood, a voluptuous emotion in a man, then one only lays pitfalls for the weak when one would talk about the exploits of love.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Murder is a crime of violence against the murdered person. Suicide is a crime of violence against those who remain alive.
~ Salman Rushdie
People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.
~ Sam Harris
I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
~ O. J. Simpson
Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.
~ Rider Strong
It was a murder, nothing more. Athos
~ Alexandre Dumas
But mankind, on the contrary, is repelled by blood. It is not the laws of society that condemn murder, but the laws of nature.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Mais l'homme au contraire, répugne au sang ; ce ne sont point les lois sociales qui répugnent au meurtre, ce sont les lois naturelles 
~ Alexandre Dumas
Politikada, sevgili oÄŸlum, benim kadar siz de bilirsiniz ki insanlar yoktur, düÅŸünceler vard?r; duygular yoktur, ç?karlar vard?r; politikada bir adam öldürülmez, bir engel ortadan kald?r?l?r, iÅŸte hepsi bu.
~ Alexandre Dumas