Murderer Quotes

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. (Jean Rostand)
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. View quote
Agatha Christie
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. View quote
Graham Greene
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. View quote
Henry Miller
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. View quote
Robert Browning
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child. View quote
Alice Sebold
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community. View quote
Otto Schily
How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer... View quote
Harry J. Anslinger
We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world. (Martin Niemöller)
I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
No one has the audacity to exclaim: "I don't want to do anything!" - we are more indulgent with a murderer than with a mind emancipated from actions. View quote
Emil Cioran
The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight. View quote
Orson Scott Card
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. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer! View quote
Richard Pryor
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer. View quote
Agatha Christie
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man. View quote
Colin Wilson
Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer? View quote
José Saramago
All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else. (Swami Vivekananda)
Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't. View quote
Jakaya Kikwete
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e. g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice. View quote
Immanuel Kant
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before. View quote
Peter Straub
Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God. View quote
Frank Peretti