Murder Quotes (802 Quotes)

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  “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

  Voltaire

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  “I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”

  J.K. Rowling

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  “Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”

  William S. Burroughs

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  “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”

  William Shakespeare

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  “Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”

  Gloria Steinem

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  “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

  Leonardo da Vinci

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  “The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

  Jim Morrison

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• “He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

  Albert Einstein

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  “The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.” Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. “Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.”

  Holly Black

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  “When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.”

  Thomas Harris

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  “How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.”

  Alice Sebold

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  “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”

  Thomas Paine

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  “If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”

  Jasper Fforde

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  “Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?”

  Sylvia Plath

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• “The man had a smooth voice, like velvet. “I’m Detective Inspector Me. Unusual name, I know. My family were incredibly
  narcissistic. I’m lucky I escaped with any degree of humility at all, to be honest, but then I’ve always managed to exceed expectations. You are Kenny Dunne, are you not?”
  “I am.”
  “Just a few questions for you, Mr Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we’ve become friends these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?”
  “Sure,” Kenny said, slightly baffled.
  “Thank you. Thank you very much. It’s important you feel comfortable around me, Kenny. It’s important we build up a level of trust. That way I’ll catch you completely unprepared when I
  suddenly accuse you of murder.”

  Derek Landy

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  “If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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  Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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  “The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.”

  Patrick Ness

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  “Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.”

  Suzanne Collins

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  “Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.”

  Alice Sebold

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  “Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”

  Michael Bassey Johnson

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  “You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”

  Grace Willows

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• “The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.
  
  Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.
  
  The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.
  
  The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . .”

  Judith Lewis Herman

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  “rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.”

  Patricia Cornwell

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  “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”

  William Shakespeare

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• “When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. You can only win the game when you understand that it IS a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him loose them all.”

  Mark Lawrence

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