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“You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans - my fellow veterans - whose future you stole.”

May War Eye Young Justice Crime Murder Fellows Including Guilty Veteran Plunder War Crimes

Author:Thomas Young

“What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.”

Men Humans Wells May Ideas Reason Enough Dies Names Human Beings Mistake Struggle Materials Survival Men And Women Harder Murder Connected Instance Ideology Abstract Live By Vermin

Book:Ideology: An Introduction

Source: Ideology: An Introduction

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

Needs May Appreciate Murder Architecture Commit

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

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

“Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.”

Thinking Writing May Form Social Mystery Criticism Let Me Murder Get Away Pedestrians

Author:Gregory Mcdonald

“People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.”

“What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.”

Knows Men Mind Looks May Goes On Murder Gentleman Do You Know

Author:Lester Cole

“RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.”

May Has Beens Done Break Expectations Murder Determine Executives Hostility Continuity Attorney Disagreeable Assassins Suspension Respite Prosecuting

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.”

Ifs May Winning Names Sex Murder Magazines Prize Illegal Jail

Author:Larry Flynt

“May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time.”

May Moments Seems Joy Time Hours Sweet Murder Wings Notes Delight Silver Bells Chimes Silver Bells

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)