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"If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation."
"Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong."
"Police do get obsessed with solving crimes. You know, particularly if there's been a murder, it becomes personal for the police officer very quickly, and it gets to the family. Even after they've retired, they carry on, not letting go."
"Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder."
"It is like confessing to a murder."
"confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder"
"I know death follows me, but I murder him first."
"Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate."
"You know who would make an interesting murder-suicide? Madeline Albright and Yanni."
"Get ready for the future: it is murder."
"The British government is a murder machine."
"Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder."
"Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law."
"the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder."
"Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder."
"When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am."
"War is murder writ large."
"How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?"
"Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me."
"One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket."
