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Thou shalt not kill.

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Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.

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"'Having abandoned the destruction of life, the recluse Gotama abstains from the destruction of life. He has laid aside the rod and the sword, and dwells conscientious, full of kindness, compassionate for the welfare of all living beings.' It is in this way, bhikkhus, that the worldling would speak when speaking in praise of the Tathāgata.

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Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.

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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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It must be true that whenever a sensational murder is committed there are people who — though they are, quite properly, of no interest to law enforcers, attorneys, or newspaper reporters — weep, lie sleepless, and realize at last that their lives have been changed by a crime in which they played no part.

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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True believing Christians are sheep among wolves. ... They employ neither worldly sword nor war, since with them killing is absolutely renounced.

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The human race isn't worth fighting for, only worth killing. Give the Earth back to the animals. They deserve it infinitely more than we do. Nothing means anything anymore.

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You're not a homicidal, I checked that on your record before I came out after you. That is why I know you will join the Corps and get a great deal of pleasure out of going after the other kind of criminal who is sick, not just socially protesting. The man who can kill and enjoy it.

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One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.

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Gentlemen of the Jury, the charge against the prisoner is murder, and the punishment of murder Is death; and that simple statement is sufficient to suggest to us the awful solemnity of the occasion which brings you and me face to face.

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If the masterpiece was murder, I'd major in art.

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No one joins the murder squad who hasn't a taste for death.

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I am not afraid to kill you for their is no death.

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Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.

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Around his neck a ribbon clung,A curious toy — you know the rest.

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Abel the victim—Cain the homicide,Thus reddened from the first life’s troubled tide.

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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

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You must not murder.(Exodus 20:13) A. We should fear and love God so that we may not hurt or harm our neighbor in his body, but help and befriend him in every bodily need [in every need and danger of life and body].

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Hell of a thing killing a man... you take away all he has and all he's gonna have.

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One murder made a villain,To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

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As a social phenomenon, serial murder is only about a hundred and twenty-five years old, part of as swelling tide of interpersonal violence that has been since the middle of the nineteenth century.

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The first killer I ever studied had put bandages over the wounds of the people he stabbed after they were dead, Other killers have done the same thing.

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When bodies are assaulted or parts excised, the killer is signifying his wish to remove any vestiges of humanity from the victim.

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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."

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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

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If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

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Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speakWith most miraculous organ.

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He took my father grossly, full of bread;And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?

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No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize.

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O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,Over thy wounds now do I prophesy.

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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this bloodMaking the green one red.

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Blood hath been shed ere now i' the olden time,Than such a murder is.

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The great King of kingsSpurn at his edict and fulfill a man's?

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Killing ain't fair, but somebody's got to do it.

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We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.

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This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

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Do you not weep?But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

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One to destroy is murder by the law, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

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A man lusts to become a god...and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

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Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.

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Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.Trie gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

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Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time,But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.

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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

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Cast not the clouded gem away,God's angel, cries, Forbear!

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One to destroy is murder by the law,War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

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