#murder

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution. ↗

— Kate Millett

#committed #cruelty #execution #first #lost

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. ↗

— Maria Monk

#attempt #children #convent #far #i

Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#murder #paranoia #funny

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#afternoon #american #american culture #bats #began

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#aimed #being #collective #confrontation #faced

I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#believe #committing #i #i do #just

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. ↗

— P. D. James

#detective #detective story #murder #order #restoration

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how. ↗

— Ann Rule

#fascinates #how #me #more #much

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#central #communist #communist party #cults #down

There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#bad #cannot #good #murder #terror