| Author |
Quotes |
| Bishop Beilby Porteus | 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 | Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. |
| Col Sillius Titus | Killing no murder. |
| Daniel Webster | Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. |
| Edward Young | 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. |
| George Chapman | Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. |
| George Henry Lewes | Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray,-- My brother man, Beware! With that deep voice which from the skies Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice. God's angel, cries, Forbear! |
| Caius Julius Caesar | You also, O son Brutus. |
| O Anna Niemus | George Tenet's charm covers his arms as a velvet sheath covers a bloodied sword. *** George Tenet head of Murder Inc. whose agency has had Afghanis die under their interrogation cannot be trusted not to plant WMD's in Iraq. |
| Ovidius Naso | Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. |
| Robert Burton | Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. |
| Sigmund Freud | The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Criminals do not die by the hands of the law, they die by the hands of other men. |
| John Dryden | Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. |
| William Shakespeare | 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 | 'A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May, And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven? |
| William Shakespeare | No place indeed should murder sanctuarize, Revenge should have no bounds. |
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