Murderous Quotes About Murder And Killing
The greatest crime amongst human being and even other animals killing of one’s kind. Murder is basically an unlawful killing of another person especially when it is premeditated or planned. People sometimes kill others out of mistake or sheer ignorance while not very excusable but it’s still forgivable as it is not intentional and planned. Murder is terrible and getting to know how other people feel about it can only be done through quotes about and killing written by individuals who were/are either killers themselves or have been a close enough to become victims of murder(murder of a relative, friend or close associate). Or people who have neither been victims nor killers themselves but those who have taken time to study killers and murderers to understand thought process. The knowledge derived from these studies have been shared in different literary works and we have put them together in the form of quotes about killings.
What is most shocking is the information gotten from gaining insight into the minds and thought process of murderers and how they are able to rationalize their despicable actions, it gets worse with serial killers. The essence of these murder quotes is to draw attention to the dangers of such crime to ensure people are fully aware of their actions and the consequences of such actions. If you are one that is studying the topic you would greatly appreciate these quotes about murder.
Quotes About Killing To Make You Think
- As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell
- Everybody is a killer, all you have to do is push them to the limits. – J. Cole
- Better the mother of the killer than the mother of the killed. – Anonymous
- Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage — Woody Allen
- The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. — Leonardo da Vinci
- Doesn’t anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer? — José Saramago
- We love, in animals, that we can kill them legally. In war, too, we like to be able to kill legally. Of course, men never admit that. — Henry de Montherlant
- If you are not ready to kill what you claim to hate, do not say you hate: you are prostituting that word. — Henry de Montherlant
- He who kills out of selfishness kills a little. Out of ambition, a lot. From ideology, monstrously. — Jean Rostand
- Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. — Vladimir Nabokov
- Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. — Jean-Luc Godard
- The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. — William Shakespeare
- Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. – William Shakespeare
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater. — George Bernard Shaw
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. – George Bernard Shaw
- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. — Napoleon
- Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. — Jean Rostand
- When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. — Winston Churchill
- There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. — Mahatma Gandhi
- Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years. — Anton Chekhov
- You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. — Antonio Porchia
- Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war. — Will Durant
- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — Voltaire
- That’s how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. — Eugene Ionesco
- Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won’t let things go? They’re called cops. – Tim Dorsey
- If you are not the victim, don’t examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU’RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you’re the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle. – Gary Yourofsky
- It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
- Murder is terribly exhausting. – Albert Camus
- Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime. – John Dryden
- I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. – Jean-Paul Sartre
- What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. – Stephen King
- Murder is like potato chips: you can’t stop with just one. – Stephen King
- If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don’t want it. – Hiro Mashima
- One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero. – Bill Vaughan
- The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong – and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth. – Feisal Abdul Rauf
- confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder – Cornel West
- There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster. – Jodi Picoult
- Murder begins where self-defense ends. – Georg Buchner
- Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. – George Orwell
- Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. – Octave Mirbeau
- The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer – Varg Vikernes
- Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind. – Rae Foley
- Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly. – Terry Hayes
- Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – Oscar Wilde
- Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations. – Bentley Little
- Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. – Benjamin Tucker
- One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. – Beilby Porteus
- Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged. – Avis Bohlen
- Progress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes. – Avis Bohlen
- Paxton was killed because of an irresistible compulsion that has taken over my life. I knew when I left my house that day that someone would die. … This compulsion started with just thoughts about murder and progressed from thoughts to action. – Thomas Dillon
- Killing people is very usual. Nothing special. – Yang Xinhai
- Look, btch. I don’t care about you. I don’t care if you’re going to have a baby. You had better be ready. You’re going to die, and I don’t feel anything about it. – Susan Atkins
- It’s all power and control, because you’re so insecure in yourself. I was the type of guy who would freeze at baseball plays. I don’t want to swing because I know I’m gonna miss. … That’s what I had back then, so I used sex as a vice. – Paul Bernardo
- What I did is not such a great harm, with all these surplus women nowadays. Anyway, I had a good time. – Rudolf Pleil
- I controlled other people’s lives, whether they lived or died. I had that power to control. After I didn’t get caught for the first fifteen, I thought it was my right. Appointed myself judge, prosecutor, and jury. So I played God. – Donald Harvey
- It made me feel like they were a permanent part of me. – Jeffrey Dahmer
- I wish I could stop, but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness. – Dennis Nilsen
- I just started shooting. That’s it. I just did it for the fun of it. – Brenda Spencer
- To me, killing people is like ripping open a duvet. … I’m not a maniac. I have been taken over by a higher force, something telegraphic or cosmic which drove me. For example, I wanted to kill my brother’s first wife, because I hated her. I really wanted to kill her, but I couldn’t, because I had to receive the order first. I waited for it, but it did not come. – Anatoly Onoprienko
- I had an unspeakable delight in strangling women, experiencing during the act erections and real sexual pleasure. The feeling of pleasure while strangling them was much greater than that which I experienced while masturbating… It never occurred to me to touch or look at the genitals… It satisfied me to seize the women by the neck and suck their blood. – Vincenzo Verzeni
- You feel that last bit of breath leaving the body. You’re looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God! – Ted Bundy
- I always had the desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything that hurt. The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost. – Albert Fish
- For me a life without murder is like a life without food for you. I felt like the father of all these people, since it was I who opened the door for them to another world. – Alexander Pichushkin
- I remember there was actually a sexual thrill. You hear that little pop and pull their heads off and hold their heads up by the hair. Whipping their heads off, their body sitting there. That’d get me off. – Ed Kemper
- There is no justification…the only thing I can say is that I felt overwhelmed at the time. …It felt like I needed to do something. And I did. – Charles Cullen
- It was my task to take out the organs while Pandy was cutting the remains. I just used a kitchen knife. You have to exercise strength. It’s not that easy. – Agnes Pandy
- I like to watch the eyes fade, the pupil fade. It’s just like setting their soul free. I don’t have an on-and-off switch. I’m just after that drug. I’m after that feeling. – Tommy Lynn Sells
While some of the quotes about murder above are really eye opening and educative, some of the quotes are totally shocking and mind boggling. These shocking quotes on killing are either written works of known killers or spoken words of some killers. To let others learn from the quotes about killing, share these quotes with your friends and family that might be in need of something like this.
