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All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.
It is the ultimate metafictional act, not homicide but suicide. (Wallace would say that one of the problems of metafiction is that there is no difference.)
Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
fatal vehicular misadventure.
Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself.
If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense.
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.
On the same day, two murders.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
While his history of depression is compatible with suicide ... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder.
Where there is murder, anything can happen.
[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect our lives.
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist.
I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.
A murderer is a killer without a uniform.
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
Every murder is a suicide.
Nothing says "commitment" like accessory to murder.
How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.
I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.
Murder was a fascination as always.
Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people ... have to walk out of the shadows.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.
The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.
Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.
Death to the killers, bringing light to life.
A murderer is seldom content with one crime.
Since he does not yet have the name of the killer,
Yeah, probably. Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow.
Justice is rendering each killer that which is his due.
Murder in and of itself was not engaging; it was the drive to kill, the human factor, the fervors and furies motivating the dreadful act that rendered it compelling. Alice
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
One person's murder is another person's strict discipline. Don't be so judgemental.
Murder shoots, I give your ass good seats
You are under arrest for murder, attempted murder and general conspiracy to be an asshole. - Harry Bosch
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.
Thus we find the source of our new multiple murderer primarily among the ambitious who failed - or who believed they would fail - and who seek another form of success in the universal celebrity and attention they will receive through their extravagant homicides.
It's just that murder pisses me off.
Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.
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Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.
The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even when it is cloaked as 'justice' and state-sanctioned. It is only a delusion to believe that one's pain is ended by making someone else feel pain.
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin
Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
There is nothing that can throw you off your study plan faster than a murder on campus, even if the person murdered is someone you wouldn't mind never having to lay eyes on in this world or the next.
Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.
Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.
Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Murder and a glass of wine: priceless
As the greatest of detectives makes the greatest of criminals, a specialist in investigation is also a specialist in murder.
A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.
They say all the world loves a lover - apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder."
"A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.
Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!
So, what are you in for? MANSLAUGHTER!!! I SLAUGHTERED A MAN!! JUST LIKE A PIG!!! PUT HIM ON A SPIT AND PUT AN APPLE IN HIS MOUTH!!!!
Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance
Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
At all events, let us examine the position from the point of view of murder, not suicide."
"Oh, all right. If you are on the scene, it probably would be murder!"
For a moment Poirot smiled. "I hardly like that remark.
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
All I know is, a writer ever walks into Homicide looking to shadow someone, I'm shooting them on-sight.
I joke, mademoiselle," he said, "and I laugh. But there are some things that are no joke. There are things that my profession has taught me. And one of these things, the most terrible thing, is this: murder is a habit ...
Nobody's ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.
The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
A psycho murderer who lubed. How considerate.
If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.
We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.
We killed an innocent girl
The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.
Remember, the death penalty is murder.
Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.
... out here in the real world, my man, you would be amazed how seldom murder has to break into people's lives. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it gets there because they open the door and invite it in.
Someone stabbed a dead body for reasons only the insane can fathom. My mother has found me.
You don't look like much, but they say you murdered that other chick.
Treating Murder
I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
Death penalty is the number one killer of killers.
A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I actually stood watching one, it seemed the easiest thing in the world.
Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.
Murder is terribly exhausting.
I've done murder and so I can surely do this.
Murder might do wonders to relieve my stress.
The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart