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Quotes About Murder

The gang war will never end. Because at it's core , it is not the gangsters against the police or the gangster against another. It is a young man with a Mauser against history personal and political, it is revolution one murder at a time.
~ Suketu Mehta
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
~ Armstrong Williams
Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn't love you, it's not an easy thing, turning that breathing person into a dead one.
~ Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies
maybe into a mistral, the wind that can make you crazy, so that in France you can be acquitted if you kill someone while it's blowing.
~ Miriam Toews
so by making the promise he demanded she make she was in a sense killing him, but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Oh, how I'd enjoyed all that sweet crisp righteous anger, my favorite drug: I'd nearly ridden the high straight into murder.
~ Naomi Novik
What can I possibly have in common with perpetrators of murder and torture?" It is much more reassuring to believe that they are evil and be done with them.14 We dare not let a glimmer of their humanity in the door, because it might force us to face the haunting truth of cartoonist Walt Kelly's great character Pogo, who famously said: "We have met the enemy and he is us.
~ Carol Tavris
In a community as small as Badger's Drift, everyone will know what you're about. Someone who has killed once and who thinks he can protect himself by killing a second time will not hesitate to do so. And don't forget'—he turned and they walked together towards the exit—'that if Miss Simpson knew the murderer very well, so do you.
~ Caroline Graham
He flipped through channels until he found reruns of NCIS. Understanding murder is simple compared to understanding a woman, Leroy Jethro Gibbs. You been married a bunch of times. What advice would you give me? He talked to the character on the television. Gibbs said, Grab your gear.
~ Carolyn Brown
Charlaine Harris
~ I'm a Waitress.
Charlaine Harris
~ same hotel.
The murder of a child was the worst of crimes, in my book, the absolute rock bottom of evil.
~ Charlaine Harris
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
~ Christiane Amanpour
Activists are killed in Mexico.
~ Gloria Trevi
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.
~ Thomas de Quincey
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
~ Thomas de Quincey
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
~ Thomas de Quincey
It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought, it excited him to see her marked in this particular way. She couldn't tell. The sparks in his eyes flew into his darkness like fireflies down a cave.
~ Thomas Harris
In the Green Machine there is no mercy; we make mercy, manufacture it in parts that have overgrown our basic reptile brain. There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
~ Thomas Harris
He was a person who agreed with everything his victim said before he killed him.
~ Thomas Harris
It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness.
~ Thomas Harris
Graham switched on the lights and bloodstains shouted at him from the walls, from the mattress and the floor. The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying. Graham sat on the floor until his head was quiet. Still, still, be still.
~ Thomas Harris
Pazzi and his appendage swinging and spinning before the rough wall of the floodlit palace, jerking in posthumous spasms but not choking, dead, his shadow thrown huge on the wall by the floodlights, swinging with his bowels swinging below him in a shorter, quicker arc, his manhood pointing out of his rent trousers in a death erection.
~ Thomas Harris
Graham climbed out a window onto the porch roof and sat on the gritty shingles. He hugged his knees, his damp shirt pressed cold across his back, and snorted the smell of slaughter out of his nose.
~ Thomas Harris