Antonin Scalia
Judge
"If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?"
Murder quotes
Murder
374 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Socrates
Philosopher
"Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"To kill time is not murder, it's suicide."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders."
Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders."
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"One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero."
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"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."
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"If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death."
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"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
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"Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder."
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"We could plan a murder Or start a religion."
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"You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]"
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"I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians."
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"Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one."
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"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."
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"One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life."
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"Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated."
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"I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable."
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"I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it."
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"Murder isn't that bad, we all die sometime anyway."
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"It was not war, it was murder."
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"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."
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"Murder shoots, I give your ass good seats"
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"Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!"
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"To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands."
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