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Murder |
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Quotations
 | It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 26 likes |
 | That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 20 likes |
 | As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 14 likes |
 | You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 13 likes |
 | Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 13 likes |
 | 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, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 11 likes |
 | Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 9 likes |
 | Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 8 likes |
 | There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 7 likes |
 | When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 7 likes |
 | The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry VI 6 likes |
 | When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 3 likes |
 | Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
 | Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders. — Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director 3 likes |
| He who kills out of selfishness kills a little. Out of ambition, a lot. From ideology, monstrously. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 1 likes |
 | If you are not ready to kill what you claim to hate, do not say you hate: you are prostituting that word. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 1 likes |
| We love, in animals, that we can kill them legally. In war, too, we like to be able to kill legally. Of course, men never admit that. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 1 likes |
 | Doesn’t anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer? — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 1 likes |
 | One thought–murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 1 likes |
 | I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 1 likes |
 | The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | Better the mother of the killer than the mother of the killed. 7 likes |
