Murder Quotes: Chilling Words on Heinous Acts

"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality"

"Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows"

"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder"

Upton Sinclair, Author

"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire"

William Blake, Poet

"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens"

Emmanuel Teney, Author

"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder"

Tertullian, Author

"Murder begins where self-defense ends"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder"

Octave Mirbeau, Writer

"All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death"

Edwin M. Stanton, Lawyer

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame"

Edward Young, Poet

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind"

George Orwell, Author

"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder"

George Eliot, Author

"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, Musician

"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes"

George W. Bush, President

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction"

Barack Obama, President

"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent"

Barry White, Musician

"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never"

Jack Benny, Comedian

"Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness"

John Cusack, Actor

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