“I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingHas BeensI CanShowsHateCan DoWatchesCrimeTvsRight NowMurderCompareWant Me Author:Nathan Fillion
“Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together.” PeopleTryingTogetherFormInterestingReadyMurderHarmonyCome UpAssassinationNot ReadyLove One Another Author:George Carlin
“Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens - leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.” PeopleChildrenBodyUsedMotherCitizensWeaponsMurderLeavingTerrorDecadesNuclearPursuePoisonGasIranNervesRegimesNuclear WeaponsIranianAnthraxPoison Gas Author:George W. Bush
“I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.” PeopleThinkingYearsAgeFoolMurderSillyGet AwayOld People Author:Bernard Manning
“The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.” PeopleYearsLongFactsShowsSeemsFacesChurchDiseaseMassMurderCatholicManageHolocaustCatholic ChurchBishopsDegradationComplicityCrass Author:Terence McKenna
“Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.” PeopleIfsWayWantPersonsSometimesCoursesHouseCarNew YorkMurderTrainKillingDrivingLos AngelesImpatientSubwayDelayed Book:Brain Droppings Source: Brain Droppings
“There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian beliefs motivating his desire to attack and murder three people, including a police officer, in Colorado.That man is a Christian. He`s an avowed Christian. He appears to have acted on those Christian beliefs to undertake that act of violence.” PeopleMenSaidChristianDesireThreeBeliefWifeViolenceBabyMurderPoliceCourtIncludingDearWarriorOfficersExesPolice OfficerColoradoActs Of ViolenceEx Wife Author:Chris Hayes
“There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'” PeopleKnowsHateGroupsAmountHeroMurderGreat ThingsAdmireAtrocitiesSmall AmountsUgandaLarge Groups Author:Forest Whitaker
“I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. These shows like Forensic Files, City Confidential, I just can't get enough of them. It's always the same sort of deal. You know that they interview the actual people that lived through the experience. I miss Paul Winfield as the host of City Confidential, may he rest in peace.” PeopleKnowsMayEnoughShowsDealsCitiesMissingTvsMurderTownsCourtInterviewsHostSmall TownFilesHookedRest In PeaceConfidentialForensics Author:Kevin Pollak
“Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There's an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.” PeopleWorldWayPersonsTwoFactsLeftCan DoNumbersDegreesPhotographyCapableThirdsMurderInfiniteCamerasPhotographSubtleManipulationInterpretationHomelessThird Person Author:Joel Sternfeld
“This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has led to Putin's incursions in the Middle East and in eastern Europe, and has led - has led to significant problems in the Middle East as well, and the death and murder of lots of folks.” PeopleWellsProblemMiddlePolicyWeaknessEuropeMurderClintonFolksEastSignificantAdministrationBarackForeign PolicyMiddle EastEasternBetrayedPutinEastern Europe Author:Chris Christie
“People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion to those under tremendous duress? There's this whole idea that you work really hard so you can deaden your soul to the universe and enjoy yourself only in ways the Sierra Club will let you. But what about enjoying yourself by getting into the whole melee of poverty and racism and violence and murder and drug addiction? Get in there, roll up your sleeves, and do something! Nobody does it.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsDoeIdeasSoulHardWholeUniverseEnjoyAnimalCompassionPovertyHellViolenceDrugRacismMurderAddictionClubsYour SoulSleevesDrug AddictionDrug AddictSierraEnjoy YourselfDuress Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveKindCountryFantasyWillingMurderMythologyDoomedExileBlunders Author:Bill Ayers
“As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.” PeopleIfsShouldHas BeensWarStatesHomeFightingNationsUnitedUnited StatesMurderPoliceResponsiblePolice StateConverting Author:Milton Friedman
“Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions.” PeopleThinkingSometimesFactsPovertyCrimeMurderConvictionInequalityLegacyTragicIncidentsContributingHorrific Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.” PeopleStoriesRealityAsksPaperMurderKillingCoffeeCoveredKillersHomicide Author:Charles Bowden
“Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes invasive nature of in-depth interviews that aren't just a quick list of ten questions?” PeopleChildrenSometimesChallengesEventsTerribleTenLosingMurderDepthListsInterviewsBizarreSexuallyTerrible Events Author:Sarah Stillman
“You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!” PeopleWritingFactsBodyWonderMysteryMurderDescriptionLullsMurder Mysteries Author:Lily King
“A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.” PeopleIfsSoundViolenceExampleMurderPoliceTypicalForbiddenMurdererHystericalPolice Violence Author:Molly Crabapple
“Republicans didn't lie to the American people about whether there were classified e-mails on that server and Republicans didn't tell families of Americans killed in Benghazi that a video was to blame for their murders. There isn't a vast right-wing conspiracy, Madam Secretary. Just like there wasn't one back in 1998.” PeopleLyingRepublicanMurderBlameWingsVideoConspiracyMailSecretaryRight WingServerBenghazi Author:Eric Bolling
“What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in a serial murder case or robberies in a serial bank robber case - and it spatially analyzes the point pattern of incidents, and creates a probability surface from those, working from the basis of an algorithm that says people offend close to where they live, but not too close.” PeopleLooksDoeCasesBasesMurderSeriesPatternsConnectedSurfaceLocationProbabilityIncidentsSerialsRobbersRobberyAlgorithms Author:Kim Rossmo
“For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.” PeopleFeelsTryingSeeingMurderUpsetBallads Author:Frank Fairfield
“I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.” PeopleSinResultsStrangeConsequenceMurderSuicideHorribleAwfulAlcoholism Author:Malachy McCourt
“If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have seen murders in the streets, you would have seen violence, you have seen people burning books and it would have looked like the world was a horrible place, but that's where all these incredible stuff we're still living with comes out of.” PeopleIfsWorldStillsBookStuffViolenceStreetsFrontsMurderIncrediblesHorribleBurningSeatsRenaissance Author:Juan Enriquez
“The fact that the U.S. government spends millions of dollars to send murderous robot planes into other people's land to murder them, into other countries, that's a problem. That's what people should be concerned about. The fact that other people don't understand me is not a problem. I keep things in perspective.” PeopleShouldCountryFactsProblemGovernmentMillionsLandPerspectiveConcernedMurderDollarsPlanesOther CountriesRobotsUnderstand Me Author:Ian MacKaye
“I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingInvolvedMassMurderKillingCarefulVocabularySudanCambodia Author:Elie Wiesel
“Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day. Killers may be disturbed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't tell right from wrong or are compelled to maim or murder.” PeopleWayMayMeanDifferentUseStandardsMurderInsanityKillersCompelledDisturbed Author:Park Dietz
“I think, because it's one of my favorite moments in [Charles Manson's Hollywood]. That series got a lot of attention and people talk about it a lot, but they tend to focus on the episodes that have more to do with the murder, Charles Manson doing something particularly weird, or Sharon Tate.” PeopleThinkingMomentsAttentionFocusHollywoodMurderSeriesMy FavoriteEpisodesMansonSharon Author:Karina Longworth
“You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [Charles] Manson? Have you been to that ranch?" In some way, everybody felt connected, but what was it like for people who really were connected.” PeopleWayStoriesFoundFeltMetsLateHollywoodMurderConnectedManson Author:Karina Longworth
“I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this part is not hype. After a while particularly in the case of Sybrina Fulton, they've become celebrities and people forget that they've become celebrities because of the death, the murder of their child. So I wanted people to see the burning desire for these women to live their child's legacy, to not let their child have died in vain, so they're fighting to stop the violence.” PeopleChildrenShowsWantedMotherDesireFightingCoursesForgetCasesFiveViolenceMovementMurderDiedBurningLegacyVainSatHypeBurning Desire Author:Ed Gordon
“I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on murder. In that case, a few executions save not only some people from being murdered but also some people from becoming murders.” PeopleIfsCasesEffectsBecomingMurderPunishmentConclusionExecutionCapital PunishmentDeterrent Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“75%-90% of the murders that occur in black and Latino communities are solvable. Everybody knows who did it or somebody knows. The reason nobody talks is because snitches get stitches and people aren't bulletproof.” PeopleKnowsReasonBlackCommunityMurderLatinoStitchesBulletproofSnitch Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.” PeopleWantTryingBelieveFacesI BelieveEnemyPsychologyMurderInnocentShakes Author:George W. Bush
“Because we're not as serious about terrorism as we can be, people all across the globe feel like they can just murder innocent people.” PeopleFeelsSeriousMurderTerrorismInnocentGlobes Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Hillary Clinton is funded by people who murder homosexuals.” PeopleMurderClintonHomosexual Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in desperation. They come to the border, and we put them in trucks and send them back to Mexico to die. And here people are scared of illegal immigrants - that's what we're doing. It's pretty shocking.” PeopleWorldWayDiesMurderScaredHorribleBordersImmigrantsIllegalMexicoDesperationShockingTruckAtrocitiesFleeingIllegal ImmigrantsInfanticideHonduras Author:Noam Chomsky
“For a lot of people, me included, abortion is murder. And it just becomes clearer and clearer the closer you get to birth. I mean, it's just so - I think if you had a womb with a window, it would never happen.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanHappensBirthWindowMurderAbortionWomb Author:Glenn Beck
“We need to recognize what Elijah Muhammad said, listen to his words: "We are a nation in a nation." Why not use these 22 million at that time - 50 million people's power for their eternal salvation instead of temporary enjoyment with the same wicked people who murder our people?” PeopleMurderSalvationEnjoymentWickedTemporaryMuhammadElijah Author:Louis Farrakhan
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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