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“The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.”

Men Brain Mankind Strange Paper Murder Intellect Nonsense Papers

Book:The Seven That Were Hanged

Source: The Seven That Were Hanged

“Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.”

Heart Mankind Civilization Murder Strikes

Author:Rae Foley

“Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.”

Mankind Murder Savior Adore

Book:Captains and the Kings: A Novel

Source: Captains and the Kings: A Novel

“If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.”

Ifs Looks Art Play Seems Study Violence Mankind Painting Murder

Author:Ethan Hawke

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

“I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.”

World Universe Interest Deals Mankind Couple Horror Pages Murder Tired Beastly

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.”

Ifs Men World War Ends Hands Would Be Suffering Dies Accepting Land Mankind Difficulty Murder Luxury Ease Boredom Paradise Honey Milk Massacres Milk And Honey

Book:The Suffering of the World

Source: The Suffering of the World

“There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again”

People Has Beens War Mankind Built Murder Rage Destroyed Exception Urges Great Change

Book:The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition

Source: The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition