Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who’d been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them...

Dr. Kevorkian’s been accused of murder five times. Does that make him a murderer?

You understand nothing,” I told him with a weary shake of the head, but I would not try to make him understand. That there was no justification for it: the murder of another, no matter...

God made them as stubble to our swords.

… is it truly possible to steal a life, if… the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who ‘murders’ does no more than transgress against the will of another,...

He remembered a conversation he’d once had with a Chief Constable some years back, when he asked the Chief if in his experience he believed there was such a thing as the ‘perfect murder’. The...

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Honestly, I don’t understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

Essay on Adam”There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell.Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four:he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him.Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam.The first, that he...

I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.

They say that even of a good thing you can have too much. But I doubt it. True, such good things as sunbathing, beer, and tobacco may be intemperately pursued to the detriment of their...

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing,...

In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder” was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can never melt into a lucid, clear suspension. Our detective fiction tells us otherwise: everything is just meat and...

Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to be above average, let them to believe that it was others who were...

Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance...

Don’t misconceive God; His purpose is for us to enjoy fruits, but He gave us seeds so that we can grow the fruits. Misuse of a seed is a murder of fruits!

Just because I murdered a man—my boss—doesn’t mean I deserve to be fired. In fact, as I see it and saw it, I should be promoted for showing initiative and seeing an opportunity and opening...

The truth is I did try to stab him. I tried to stab him with a butter knife. Why? Because it seemed deadlier than trying to stab him with a melting stick of butter.

from the Basement tapes Eric outdid Dylan with the apologies. To the untrained eye, he seemed sincere. The psychologists on the case found Eric less convincing. They saw a psychopath. Classic. He even pulled the...

How simple death without weapons was. How safe for the killer.(“Mind Over Murder”)

The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.

I stepped on the bug to prove I love her, and show that I’d kill for her. Is there really any mystery as to why the guy she was talking to before me just disappeared...

I had to wonder, though, if there’s something about a murderer, particularly a confident one, that gives him a certain charisma or charm that I, in particular, am susceptible to.I mean, there’s a reason more...

Something of a pattern had started to form and it was ugly.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder...

You should have died when I killed you.

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make...

Because you would’ve been the first victim.

What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled ‘enemy?

The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral

It has often been said that the more unusual the murder the easier it is to solve, but this is a theory I don’t believe. Nothing is easy, nothing is simple, and you should think...

no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.

For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father’s dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and arrived and yet arrived at that place and time and that body lying...

The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without...

It’s never too late to achieve your dreams

She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is...

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.

Alcohol makes you do some crazy things, like speak openly of your love, fornicate with strangers, and occasionally commit murder. That’s why I stopped drinking. Been sober now for over three days.

The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back.

California has legislatively barred alimony payments to a dependent spouse who has attempted to murder the supporting spouse. Cal. Fam. Code § 4324.

One’s child is always one’s child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn’t. It’s a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge’s chambers. On the other side of the table, close enough for me to reach across and touch him, sat Ted Bundy. He’s...

Must have a lot of male customers to let her dress like that. Nice view.