#murder

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. ↗

— Edward Young

#awe #destroy #fame #gives #glorious

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#longer #murder #people #sentence #served

Each murder is one too many. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#many #murder #too

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#committing #hands #his #man #moral

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable. ↗

— Philip Hone

#inevitable #may #murder #rendered #situation

If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.' ↗

— Scott Baio

#diagnosis #directed #episodes #i #like

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. ↗

— Albert Camus

#murder #dating

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide. ↗

— Pat Brown

#label #murder #police #possible #reluctant

Murder begins where self-defense ends. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#ends #murder #self-defense #where

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#car #charge #heard #i #murder