“Russia spends enormous, senseless amounts of money on the army and the police. We have one of the top rankings in the world when it comes to the number of police officers - but when it comes to the number of murders, we are also right at the top.” WorldArmyMurderPolicePolice Officer Author:Alexei Navalny
“I just really care about what people see. I want them to know that I'm working hard for this. The artists that I look up to like, you know, Michael, Prince, James Brown. You watch them and you understand that they're paying attention to the details of their art. And they care so much about what they're wearing, about how they're moving, about how they're making the audience feel. They're not phoning it in. They're going up there to murder anybody that performs after them or performs before them. That's what I've watched my whole life and admired.” PeopleArtCareMovingArtistAttentionAudienceLike YouMurderWhole LifePay AttentionLook Up Author:Bruno Mars
“I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has to be thoughtful and mature about how you depict it and how you think it through. You have to think about the effects that violence has on audiences, and it's deployed so casually that I think it's losing its meaning. And when things like violence and murder and the dehumanization of other people lose their meaning, then we're really kind of in a place where we have to reexamine and take a hard look at ourselves.” PeopleThinkingKindAudienceViolenceLosingMurderPropertyThoughtfulMatureDehumanization Author:Karyn Kusama
“Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.” MeanMurderComplicatedGenerousAccused Author:Ezra Edelman
“I've seen lots of murders, no murder is ever nice, and I just don't think the victim's family has an opportunity to get all the justice they might want. We seem to always forget about victim's families and we focus in on the criminal and we need to get away from that and focus on the people that are actually suffering because of the incident. They can lobby their elected State's Attorney to have the death penalty on the table.” PeopleThinkingSufferingOpportunityJusticeForgetFocusNiceMurderGet AwayDeath PenaltyAttorney Author:John Cabello
“I happen to be catholic, and I heard that the pope was asking that we abolish the death penalty and I would have to respectfully disagree with him. As many murders as I've had to deal with in my career, watching and dealing with the victim's families throughout the beginning of the incident all the way until today. There are a lot of folks that feel that they didn't have the justice that was due to them.” TodayJusticeMurderCatholicDisagreePopeDeath Penalty Author:John Cabello
“Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the majority of Germans throughout the 1930s and World War II; and by the countless countries, communities and individuals who collaborated with the vast constellation of Hitler's monsters in the gruesome murder of well over 60% of European Jewry. Codex Orféo reminds us that the root of that insanity is continuing in the form of contemporary Holocausts against other species, with equally systematic, atrocious and inexplicable madness.” WorldWarCountryRealityIndividualCommunityMadnessMurderRationalInsanityWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiHolocaustWorld War INazi1930s Author:Michael Tobias
“I can honestly say that in The Murder City Devils band we achieved everything that I could've ever hoped for or wanted. We did all that, which is the luckiest, craziest, and weirdest thing. Essentially, it was sort of like my dream come true in a way, so once that's happened, you sort of stop being surprised.” DreamDevilMurderHonestlyDreams Come True Author:Spencer Moody
“What I'm angry about, and I've gone on record saying this, is I think that financiers get away with murder. They realize they can get something for nothing and they won't settle for anything else. There's something called a Schedule F. If I work for a Schedule F contract that basically means I'm doing the movie for free because by the time I pay all my commissions and taxes there's barely anything left for me to live on. This whole notion that you do work that you love for very little money and then you go out and do something you hate to make money.” ThinkingMeanHateRealizingTaxesMurderMaking MoneySettlingGet Away Author:Michael Shannon
“You want inspiration to come in a natural way and let it happen when it's going to happen. The last thing you want is this ghost looming over you saying "it has to be good" - remember that feeling of loving what you do, and don't let the business aspect murder that. It takes away the creativity for me.” FeelingsInspirationRememberNaturalCreativityMurderBe GoodGhostOver You Author:Yukimi Nagano
“The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual police work, because they've learned how to do bad police work, chase drugs. Fighting vice, while being unable to respond to sin. Generations of cops have learned how not to police work by policing the drug war. Not only are they police brutal, they're ineffective. Baltimore is more violent than it has ever been in modern history.” WarFightingSinModernDrugMurderPoliceRateViolentCopBrutalWar On Drugs Author:David Simon
“What happened on September 11 wasn't the first act of war, it was the most unspeakable act of murder and terrorism. But it was construed by a very small group of people - there is no army out there in the dark waiting to take over America. It's like being stung by a bee and going out and smashing up a beehive, and thinking you've solved the problem. There are more beehives out there; more bees will come. But they're bees. They're not grizzly bears.” PeopleThinkingWarProblemWaitingDarkArmyMurderTerrorismSeptemberSeptember 11 Author:Billy Bragg
“I definitely have recurring dreams. My dreams are crazy and surreal, which is why I appreciate Carl Jung, 'cause I feel that there has to be some kind of correlation. My dreams are like surreal sci-fi thrillers, and I don't spend time watching stuff like that. I never grew up on stuff like that. I've always just had very, very vivid dreams. This is awful to say, but, lately, I've been dreaming about witnessing murder a lot. What does this mean?” KindMeanDreamCrazyAppreciateMurderEnd TimesSpend TimeSurreal Author:Diane Birch
“The Postman Always Rings Twice that's a book that I think every writer should read - that has to do with technique. But it's also a novel narrated by a guy who has decided by page 11 that he's fallen in love with a woman, and they're going to murder her husband so they can be together. There's nothing remotely likeable about him, but James M. Cain brings you so far into his head that, at a certain point, you have that uncomfortable but also thrilling sensation of seeing things exactly as he sees it.” ThinkingBookTogetherGuyNovelHusbandMurderRingsUncomfortableFallenLikeablePostman Author:Jonathan Dee
“When ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre.” EnemyDangerousMurderIdeology Author:Michael Haneke
“I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away from South Georgia where the Jim Crow laws absolutely controlled anything and everything we did. So, my goal was to leave once I completed high school. But on the night of my father's murder, I made a commitment that I would not leave the South, that I would stay and devote my life to working for change. So, my father's murder has shaped the course of my life even up to this very day.” SchoolNightGoalHigh SchoolCommitmentMurderGet AwayCrowJim Crow Author:Shirley Sherrod
“Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many kids in our family that if we all got in front of the mirror and were ashamed of browns and golds and yellows and whites, and we believed what society told us - that the darker people were less attractive and the lighter ones were prettier - we would have had sibling murders. My family, being half-rural and half-military, just came from a different place.” PeopleDifferentEyeKidsBeautifulMy FamilyGoldMurderOur FamilyAttractiveAshamedMy SisterSiblingDifferent Place Author:Pam Grier
“Traditional murder mysteries are interesting because they're ostensibly about a horrible thing - murder - but underneath that, they're about restoring order to a messed-up world. By the end of a whodunit, the detective has taken the reader through all the reasons why this terrible thing happened. Through that explanation, and by seeing the killer captured, the reader feels a sense of catharsis.” WorldReasonInterestingTakenMysteryTerribleMurderThings HappenHorribleExplanation Author:Malinda Lo
“I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid. I love movies and I could write screenplays. I love theater and I could write plays. I mean, they would be my own, I could never write what was used to be called the well-made play. But my first play, "Little Murders," turned out to be a great success and a great influence on plays at that time.” WritingMeanKidsInfluenceMurderGood FortuneGreat Success Author:Jules Feiffer
“I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a day or two after the Narvarte murders. Many of us have grown familiar with that feeling. Every few weeks or so it seems we're hit with some new crime or some new corruption scandal that isn't quite the same as a massacre, but that spawns a feeling of futility and despair in its own way.” FeelingsWeekSadnessCrimeDespairMurderCorruptionFamiliarProtestHelplessnessFutilitySpawn Author:Francisco Goldman
“I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight years after it was published it's still having an impact in Guatemala. I remember when I wrote it, a surprising number of people said things to me like, "That is such an amazing story; why didn't you turn it into a novel?"” PeopleArtBookRememberPoliticalNovelMurderJournalismRemember When Author:Francisco Goldman
“I am very cynical. That is absolutely what police is doing. But you don't even have to be cynical. I mean, politicians don't even pretend they're doing otherwise. The problem is the other side is not screaming bloody murder and saying, you know, "This is immoral, this is slavery, you're profiting from human bondage."” MeanProblemPoliticianMurderPoliceSlaveryCynicalBloodyImmoralBondage Author:Peter Moskos
“I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.” GivingWritingDreamCuttingMurder Author:Derek Cianfrance
“If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.” PeopleWorldWarNightWorstMurderRateWar Of The WorldsHardshipWorld War IiWorld War IPsychiatric Author:Sebastian Junger
“If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is. But when you have a murder that appears random, where the person is not someone that's within the known radius of the victim, then it's much, much more difficult to solve.” PeopleThinkingEasyDifficultMurderVictim Author:Cary Fukunaga
“Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.” BookRealEvilLiteratureMy OwnMurderReal LifeBeing RealTwinsPursuedMy Own Life Author:Dean Koontz
“All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.” SchoolMysteryTelevisionMurderGraduatesRuthGraduate SchoolMurder Mysteries Author:Donna Leon
“It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.” ChildrenFallBreakMurderErrorsWheelsChairsMurderer Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.” DemocracyMurderWorkersInternationalTortureExtrasReportsMexicoMexicanJudicialAmnestyExportingAmnesty International Author:Stephen F. Lynch
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” LongLastsRememberPoliticalFreedomDemocracySocietyWasteMurderSuicideLibertarianCommitCommunismRepublicLibertarianismFoundingSuicidalSuitableForms Of GovernmentCollectivismDemocracies HaveAmerican DemocracyFounding Fathers DemocracyVoting And DemocracyCommitting SuicideTyranny Founding FathersDemocracy In AmericaTyranny Of The Majority Author:John Adams
“At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'” HeartNightTurnsStageSittingMurderMeatThrownEightyOne NightSausageSobbingPromotersDistraught Author:Paul Merton
“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.” GivingChildrenSoulTurnsMurderBeatenHumiliationIntimidatingIntimidatedIntimidationHumiliated Author:Alice Miller
“The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.” ChildrenNiceMurderGuiltyUnbornEnquiryUnborn Child Author:Saint Basil
“If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.” IfsGunMurderAmmo Author:Michael Moore
“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.” KindChildrenPersonsFacesForceParentProgressMurderParentingCommitSubtleRelativeParents LoveParental LoveLoving ParentsWonderful Parents Author:Jim Morrison
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.” StyleMurderFancyProseMurderer Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“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.” PeopleIfsInspirationalTodayWinningFreedomMoralStruggleExerciseIntegrityEthicsMurderSpreadEngagedTorturePatrioticReincarnationCompassIntimidatingMoral CompassPersonal Leadership Author:Barack Obama
“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” GivingWarTruthPoliticalLyingPoliticsLanguagePeaceSoundWindPoliticianPureMurderWittyAppearanceThriveTruthfulPolitical PartiesRespectableMaking PeacePeace And JusticePeace JusticeBeing TruthfulMake Peace Not WarCitizenryPolitical WillSolidityKnowledge And PowerPoliticians And PoliticsLanguage WordsPolitical LanguageAnti PoliticalBest PoliticalFalse Appearances Author:George Orwell
“Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.” IfsMayMurderRealmsTyrants Author:James Otis
“Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.” HumorRealityFunnyLife IsComedyDevilMurderLoved Ones Author:Emo Philips
“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.” IfsThinkingMenLittlesDeathNextDyingMurderDrinkingBeerProcrastinationIndulgeSabbathRobbingIncivility Author:Thomas de Quincey
“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.” LoveYearsHas BeensEnoughFunnyMarriageWifeRelationshipSeriousCoupleMarriedHumorousArgumentMurderSevenTrue LoveDivorceMy WifeComedianFortyInsightfulMaryConsideringSeven YearsFunny MarriageBest LoveMatrimonyFunny RelationshipViolinistFunny DivorceMarriage DivorceMarriage And DivorceDivorce LawyersI Love My WifeHappy Couple Author:Jack Benny
“The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.” PeopleMatterTruthEarthReligionSinBrotherTruth IsArgumentTraditionMurderKillingExcuseInnocentTolerateBrothers And SistersSufiNo ExcusesWrongdoingAlways Wrong Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“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.” IfsWantShouldBelieveMurderAbortionShould I Author:Nancy Reagan
“I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?” BelieveMovingHouseEnergyI BelieveDarkHellSixMurderI Believe InMoving InDark EnergyJuju Author:Ryan Reynolds
“I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.” ComedyWifeTvsMurder Author:Richard Roeper
“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.” RealityTruthLyingTerribleTruth IsWeaponsMurderAggression Author:Alfred Adler
“War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.” WarPeaceBrotherMurderTortureOrganizedAnti WarAntiwar Author:Alfred Adler
“But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.” PeopleWorldTryingMayMeanGoalClearOne ThingAchieveCreatingMurderTerrorismPursuitInnocentMurdererSetting Goals Author:Salman Rushdie
“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.” PeopleThinkingTryingCareKidsDealsExistenceMurderSuicideNon Existence Author:Richard Russo