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"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)" »Jeff Greenfield
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"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
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"Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him." »Horace
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"Fascism is capitalism plus murder." »Upton Sinclair
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"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder." »Arnold Toynbee
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"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero." »Beilby Porteus, Death, A Poem
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"In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder." »Albert Einstein
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"Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder." »Albert Einstein
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"If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question." »Victor Hugo
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"AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder." »Susan Sontag
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"O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder." »William Shakespeare
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"I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder." »Homer
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"Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." »George Orwell
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"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
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"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." »Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
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"Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." »Thamas De Quincey
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"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
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"The real 196s 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
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"Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed." »Lowell Duckett
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"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth." »Alfred Adler
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"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
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"My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred." »Albert Einstein
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"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
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"What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent." »Francois Arouet
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"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." »George Orwell, 1946
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""What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith." »Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci 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." »Orson Welles
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