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“Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.”

Men Accepting Murder Shame Thanks Hypocrite Pranks

Book:The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Source: The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?”

Ifs Men Real Left Example Madness Murder Shame Punishment Death Penalty Degrade Capital Punishment Real Ones

Author:Albert Camus

“O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!”

Death Night Black Sin Hell Stage Dying Comfort Tragedy Murder Shame Blame Chaos Killing Nurse Register Concealing Notary

Book:The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

“Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.”

Murder Shame London Feds Lasting Towers Midnight Foul Julius

Book:The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford

Source: The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford

“Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.”

Stars Enemy Murder Shame Oppression Symbols Mortals Civil War Flags Spy Banner Stripes Plunder Confederate American Flag Mortal Enemies

Book:My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington

Source: My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington

“[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.”

Past Black Fire Murder Shame Torture Ashamed Rope Black History Heirs Inhuman

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.”

Lying Hate Individual Loses Movement Mass Murder Shame Independence Torture Betray Bully Remorse Miscellaneous Individual Independence

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.”

Men War Individual Force Situation Promise Murder Shame Fellows Every Man Manhood Fellow Man

Book:Civilisation, War and Death

Source: Civilisation, War and Death

“This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered.”

Women Murder Shame Blame Girls

Book:Cat’s Eye

Source: Cat’s Eye