Murder Quotes

"Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

May Sarton, Poet

"In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out"

Lance Morrow

"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"Murder will out, this my conclusion"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life"

Dean Koontz, Author

"The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king"

Alex Cox, Director

"One murder made a villain, Millions a hero"

Beilby Porteus, Clergyman

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"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, Actor

"It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself"

Tommy Bond, Actor

"So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult"

Catherine Crier, Journalist

"John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"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, Journalist

"One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled"

Rex Stout, Writer

"Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity"

Peter Benenson, Lawyer

"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared"

Jane Badler, Actress

"Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations in defense of him because I know how Bobby Blake really is, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no murder in his heart"

Tommy Bond, Actor

"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally"

Charlize Theron, Actress

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