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“Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.”

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Author:Cyprian

“I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.”

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Book:5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection

Source: 5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection

“Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.”

Ifs Men Writing Years Age Young Three Five Ready Murder Twenties Musical Commit Young Man Five Years Symphony

Author:Walter Damrosch

“I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.”

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Author:Archibald Cox

“Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.”

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Book:Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays

Source: Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays

“To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.”

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Book:Bernard Tschumi/Zenith de Rouen: Source Books in Architecture

Source: Bernard Tschumi/Zenith de Rouen: Source Books in Architecture

“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?”

Ifs Knows Men Should Would Be Saws Crime Masters Murder Excuse Commit Wicked

Book:America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island

Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island

“If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t know about the man, I will never hear about him - and somebody somewhere, in the Himalayas, commits a murder, if we are not individuals I have a part in it, I am also responsible. It is not so easy to throw the responsibility: "I am not committing a murder, I am a saint." No saint is a saint because every sinner is implied in him.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.”

Humans Literature Differences Animal Praying Murder Commit Wild Animal

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.”

Ifs Want Fighting Sin Rich Military Murder Commit Suits Patriotic Gray Uniforms Uncles Aunt Flannels

Book:The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better

Source: The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better

“I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, My treason engendered by traitors beyound me, My life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me.”

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Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early.... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.”

Children Names Poet Musician Murder Clever Commit Mathematician Murderer Distinguished

Author:John Lee Mahin

“... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.”

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Author:Ellen Glasgow

“My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.”

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Author:Maria Jeritza

“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.”

World Nations Race Leader Offers Bases Murder Commit Resistance Tyrants Despots

Author:Tim Bishop

“If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?”

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Author:Johnnie Cochran

“Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.”

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Author:Waylon Jennings

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