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There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
William Shakespeare
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas De Quincey
My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner
Oscar Wilde
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
Simone Weil
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
Alice Sebold
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?source: http://www.twainquotes.com/
Mark Twain, Following the Equato
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.note: possibly associated with Darrow by being attributed to him in Irving Stone's Clarence Darrow for the Defense;, this information is un-substantiated
Clarence Darrow, attributed to v
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Aldous Huxley
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
Graham Greene
