War is murder writ large. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: war violence murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. —Alfred Hitchcock More about this quote Tags: killing murder movies cinema messiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same: no recognition of rights — only murder in one form or another. —John Muir More about this quote Tags: murder animals heaven charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. —Alfred Hitchcock More about this quote Tags: killing murder film cleanliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: truth love history time inevitability tyranny murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin. . . . Murder is more civilized than divorce; the Victorians, as usual, were wiser. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: divorce murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: war heroism morality music violence patriotism killing murder civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: death murder challenge duels Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: justice war morality violence murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'/ 'Well, that would be a start. —Peter Stone More about this quote Tags: murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email