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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.
Author:
Edward Young
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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
Author:
John Wise
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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
Author:
Barry White
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Author:
Ida Wells
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Author:
Ida Wells
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Author:
Ida Wells
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Author:
Ida Wells
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Author:
Earl Warren
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If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.
Author:
Hunter Tylo
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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.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Author:
Arnold Toynbee
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Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
Author:
Charlize Theron
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I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
Author:
Charlize Theron
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In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.
Author:
John Thaw
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
Author:
Tertullian
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Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.
Author:
Emmanuel Teney
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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.
Author:
Rider Strong
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Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
Author:
Rex Stout
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
Author:
Oliver Stone
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Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.
Author:
Edwin Stanton
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
Author:
Upton Sinclair
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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.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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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.
Author:
George Shaw
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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
Author:
Adam Schiff
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
Author:
May Sarton
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I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
Author:
Richard Russo
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The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
Author:
Ann Rule
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It is solely for the reason that this government has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington.
Author:
Eric Rudolph
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Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.
Author:
Eric Rudolph
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
Author:
Dana Rohrabacher
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Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
Author:
John Redmond
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
Author:
Nancy Reagan
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The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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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 comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Author:
Thomas Quincey
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One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.
Author:
Beilby Porteus
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Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.
Author:
John Pilger
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Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
Author:
James Otis
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I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.
Author:
Lee Oswald
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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.
Author:
George Orwell
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Author:
Barack Obama
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War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
Author:
Alva Myrdal
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The real 1960s 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.
Author:
Lance Morrow
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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.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
Author:
Maria Monk
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So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Author:
Maria Monk
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
Author:
Octave Mirbeau
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With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
Author:
Kate Millett
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Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.
Author:
Alice Miller
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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
Author:
Karl Menninger
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Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Author:
Elsa Maxwell
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Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
Author:
Albert Maltz
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I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.
Author:
Kurt Loder
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The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
Author:
John Lewis
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
Author:
George Lewes
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My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.
Author:
Donna Leon
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
Author:
Lactantius
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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
Author:
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
Author:
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
Author:
P. James
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I think abortion is murder.
Author:
Victoria Jackson
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Author:
Julia Howe
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They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.
Author:
Philip Hone
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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.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
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And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.
Author:
Patty Hearst
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How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.
Author:
Paul Harris
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You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?
Author:
Jupiter Hammon
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Each murder is one too many.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
Author:
Val Guest
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These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
Author:
Jeff Greenfield
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The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.
Author:
Jim Garrison
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The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.
Author:
Alberto Fujimori
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Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.
Author:
Bruce Froemming
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
Author:
James Ellroy
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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.
Author:
Moshe Dayan
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The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
Author:
Godfried Danneels
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The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
Author:
John Cusack
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Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.
Author:
Catherine Crier
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
Author:
Alex Cox
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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Author:
Frank Colby
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
Author:
Geoffrey Chaucer
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I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.
Author:
Rosanne Cash
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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
Author:
George Bush
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
Author:
Vincent Bugliosi
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Murder begins where self-defense ends.
Author:
Georg Buchner
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
Author:
Pat Brown
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A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.
Author:
Robert Bourassa
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The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations in defense of him because I know how Bobby Blake really is, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no murder in his heart.
Author:
Tommy Bond
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It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.
Author:
Tommy Bond
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America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.
Author:
William Blum
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Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
Author:
Tim Bishop
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Author:
Alexander Berkman
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Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
Author:
Robert Benton
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Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Author:
Peter Benenson
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Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
Author:
Derek Bailey
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I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared.
Author:
Jane Badler
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
Author:
W. Auden
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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.
Author:
W. Auden
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I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.
Author:
Tom Araya
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For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
Author:
Christiane Amanpour
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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Author:
Akhenaton
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Author:
Alfred Adler
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
Author:
Alfred Adler
