murder

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

[The Negro past] of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape; death and humiliation; fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone; doubt that he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it; sorrow for his women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect; rage, hatred and murder, hatred for white men so deep that it often turned against him and his own, and made all love, all trust, all joy impossible.

Who will free me from this turbulent priest? Speaking of Thomas á Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who refused to be subservient to the king and was later murdered by four of the King Henry's knights, 1170.

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?