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the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Quotations regarding 'Murder'

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With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
Kate Millett, American Activist (1934-  )
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
Octave Mirbeau, French Writer (1848-1917)
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Maria Monk, Canadian Celebrity
Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
Maria Monk, Canadian Celebrity
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison, American Musician (1943-1971)
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow, -
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
Alva Myrdal, Swedish Diplomat (1902-1986)
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama, American President (1961-  )
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, British Author (1903-1950)
I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.
Lee Harvey Oswald, American Criminal (1939-1963)
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis, American Lawyer (1725-1783)
Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
Emo Philips, American Comedian (1956-  )
Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.
John Pilger, Australian Journalist (1939-  )
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.
Beilby Porteus, British Clergyman (1731-1809)
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas de Quincey, English Author (1785-1859)
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
Charles Rangel, American Politician (1930-  )
I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
Nancy Reagan, American First Lady (1921-  )
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
John Edward Redmond, Irish Politician (1856-1918)
If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
Dana Rohrabacher, American Politician (1947-  )
Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.
Eric Rudolph, American Criminal (1966-  )
 
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