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It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix...

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We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can ...

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One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...

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Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But s...

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Neil GaimanSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon t...

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Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbeliever...

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Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke kn...

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I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which ...

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For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a...

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I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cann...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were stil...

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What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in ...

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Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is...

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(A murderer about their victim:)"He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been the...

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As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event...

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Paul TherouxGhost Train to the Eastern Star

None of these apparent sightings interested Hawksmoor, since it was quite usual for members of the p...

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Hawksmoor had often noticed how, in the moments when he first carne upon a corpse, all the objects a...

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Generally he knew by instinct the likely length of an investigation, but on this occasion he did not...

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It has often been said that the more unusual the murder the easier it is to solve, but this is a the...

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I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Comp...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all ...

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Primo LeviIf This Is a Man / The Truce

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on...

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These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts.

It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.''That's sad,' said Montag, quietly, 'because al...

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So you shoot people," she said quietly. "You're a killer.""Me? How?""The papers and the police fixed...

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The depths cleared again. Something moved in them that was not a board. It rose slowly, with an infi...

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Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to...

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Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?His throat moved. Such...

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Killing is killing, whether done for duty, profit or fun

The rain set early in tonight,The sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm-tops down for spite,And...

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Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a d...

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But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting peo...

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Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive yo...

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Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

Matthew White, a self-described atrocitologist who keeps a database with the estimated death tolls o...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are com...

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The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often thei...

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It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt...

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Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass s...

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What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an in...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;There will b...

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That night, the Raka conspirators had plenty of news to report, particularly Ochobu. Aly had not kno...

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Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to ...

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There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could s...

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What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us?...

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The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those ac...

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It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God...

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The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of ...

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Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty...

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vag...

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For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; ...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Word for World is Forest

And yet I shall try again: "they are murdering me!"--all right, all together once more: "they are mu...

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Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and ge...

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result...

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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of t...

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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

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W. H. AudenForewords and Afterwords

You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I ...

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For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind...

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You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise me...

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I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scatterin...

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Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you...

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Will CuppyThe Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled

They try to thrive. To multiply. To make murder a method of management.

Now how does all this relate to Islamic jihad? Islam sees violence as a means of propagating the Mus...

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By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry ...

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I think that a good start at this problem is to enunciate our ethical theory that underlies our mora...

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Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someon...

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no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me ...

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We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the...

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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to ma...

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With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour...

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As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and...

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His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of t...

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She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth...

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That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...

[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are ...

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People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you lo...

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And anyway who the devil should I want to murder?""That would be a very good question," said Miss Ma...

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I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the pi...

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Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.

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Agatha Christie4:50 from Paddington

The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe ...

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Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder.

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Agatha ChristieHercule Poirot's Christmas

It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! ...

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At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was...

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Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"It will not."If...

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Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-""Ah, no, my friend-""From your point of view it would b...

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If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu....

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What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as ...

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Agatha ChristieThe Body in the Library

Poirot said "you will find,M.le docteur,if you have much to do with cases of this kind,that they all...

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Agatha ChristieThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Murder on the Orient Express / Ten Little Niggers / At Bertram's Hotel / Pieces

She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too ...

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Where there is murder, anything can happen.