The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get ver...y cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point ... they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder ...and doing murder isn't that major.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinkin...g and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One can endure everything except hunger. If I were a man, maybe I would have committed murder to fill my stomach. But as a woman, ...I became a prostitute.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If this creature is a murderer, then so are we all. This snake has killed one British soldier; we have killed many. This is not mu...rder, gentlemen. This is war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one fee...ls all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf ...demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against ou...r souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which de...grades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »