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Quotes about Murder


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

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.

William Shakespeare

I was more convinced than ever that the preaching like an Apostle, without joining together those that are awakened and training them up in the ways of God, is only begetting children for the murderer. How much preaching has there been for these twenty years all over Pembrokeshire! But no regular societies, no discipline, no order or connection; and the consequence is, that nine in ten of the once-awakened are now faster asleep than ever.

John Wesley's

I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.

Jack Handy

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

John Quincy Adams

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall—think of it, ALWAYS.

Mahatma Gandhi

When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, Rising and cawing at the gun's report, Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky; So at his sight away his fellows fly, And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls; He murder cries and help from Athens calls.

William Shakespeare

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

Rudolph Rummel

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Oriana Fallaci

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS.

Mahatma Gandhi

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

E. B. White

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Singer

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.

Francis Bible

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Andrea Dworkin

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

William Shakespeare

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.

Ernie Kovacs

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Emile M. Cioran

Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.

Robert Burton

Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.

John Dryden

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

George Henry Lewes

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.--Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?

Bishop Beilby Porteus

Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

William Shakespeare

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

William Shakespeare

No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

William Shakespeare

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