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Quotes About Murderous

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
~ E. M. Cioran
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government ' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
~ Edward Abbey
One should never underestimate the murderous rage of children.
~ Frank Tallis
their devilish kindness, their murderous love
~ Franz Kafka
Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me too to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent.
~ Amos Oz
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.
~ Anais Nin
It is this superiority, this contemptuous but absolutely normal and unremarkable arrogance, that he now sees as the essence of sexual depravity, and also as a first step toward killing his wife. Having actually killed, he sees the sex he took for granted as murderous in its diminution of human life-how it made women's humanity invisible, meaningless; but the prerogatives of both sex and class made the exploitation as invisible as gravity, as certain.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Can we say that Middle Eastern men who are murderously obsessed with female sexual purity actually love their wives, daughters, and sisters less than American or European men do?
~ Sam Harris
Jews have lived side by side with Christians for nearly two millennia, fathered their religion, and for reasons that are no more substantial than those underlying the belief in the Resurrection have been the objects of murderous intolerance since the first centuries after Christ.
~ Sam Harris
Wars demonstrate that our basic impulses have changed little from those of our primitive ancestors, that underneath our civility we are just as uncivilized and savage as ever. Wars show that "our unconscious is just as inaccessible to the idea of our own death, just as murderously inclined towards strangers, just as divided (that is, ambivalent) towards those we love, as was primeval man.
~ Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
Buffy caught an unexpected movement from the corner of her eye. She turned to see Xander/Sarah holding an object while he/she rushed toward the Master with murderous intentions. "No!" Buffy exclaimed. "Use a stake ! Not a steak !" Sarah stopped in fron of the grill and struck the Master several times on the chest and shoulders with the piece of meat.
~ Arthur Byron Cover
I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.
~ Michael Moore
I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown.
~ Peter Morgan
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
~ Jean Baudrillard
No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.
~ Michio Kaku
Have you not explained to your friend? She seems confused. I've told her what she needs to know. I would suspect, Nephew, that she needs to know more. Particularly when I see how you look at her. Taka gave another sudden start, but didn't turn. What did his uncle see when he looked at her? Murderous tendencies? Vast annoyance? Or something else? And she looks at you the same way, the old man added, and it was Summer's turn to jump. Definitely vast annoyance, then. And something else.
~ Anne Stuart
You'll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You'll cry then, suffocated by our culture's cannibal loving." He
~ Attia Hosain
Islam is not unusual in having a tradition of martyrs. What is unique to Islam is the tradition of murderous martyrdom, in which the individual martyr simultaneously commits suicide and kills others for religious reasons.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance.
~ George Eliot
Her voice sounded wistful, but Ven didn't trust it. She was a master at shielding her emotions. For all he knew, this pleasant greeting hid murderous rage.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
~ Sigmund Freud
Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves - there's not room for their kind of civilized society!
~ John Ratcliffe
The ritual worked. That is the most ghastly thing. I hold no particular brief for the rationality of the world, but that this vile obscenity should actually have the power to bring back the dead seems to me not merely a sign that the world is not rational, but that it is in fact entirely insane, a murderous lunatic gibbering in the corner of a padded cell.
~ Sarah Monette