Murder Quotes

Fascism is capitalism plus murder. (Upton Sinclair)
As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. View quote
Pythagoras
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. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
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. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. View quote
George Henry Lewes
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
"Murder is born in love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.” (Garden of Tortures) View quote
Octave Mirbeau
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. View quote
George Orwell
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something. View quote
Duke Ellington
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. View quote
Edward Young
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. (Alfred Hitchcock)
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep. View quote
Frank Zappa
Murder begins where self-defense ends. View quote
Georg Büchner
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. View quote
Edmund Burke
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual. View quote
Norman Mailer
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. View quote
Orson Welles
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. (Oscar Wilde)
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. View quote
William Blake
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. View quote
Jim Morrison
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. View quote
Nick Bostrom
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. View quote
Benjamin Tucker