Quotes about Intentional Killing

Jean Rostand

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Theodore Roosevelt

I killed a Spaniard with my own hand, like a jackrabbit.

Description of one of his experiences in the Spanish American War.

Hector Hugh Munro

Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, everyone assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbors now and then.

At the time hundreds of thousands of Armenians were being massacred by the Turks. Some atrocities were spontaneous, many were committed under orders, and many were triggered by Turkish leaders who whipped up the resentment and hate for the non-Muslim Armenians and then forced unarmed Armenians into areas where the Muslim Turks themselves were short of food and supplies. See {626835} for one of the several admissions of the intended genocide.

Charles Manson

I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.

Richmond Enquirer

Indiscriminate massacre was not their intention, after they obtained foothold, and was resorted to in the first instance to strike terror and alarm. Women and children would afterwards have been spared, and men also who ceased to resist

See {630997} for the description of the terror policy.

Ruth Ellis

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

William Randolph Hearst

What is murder in the first degree? It is the cruel, calculated, cold-blooded killing of a fellow human man. It is the most wicked of crimes and the State is guilty of it every time it executes a human being.

Donald Rumsfeld

If people are determined to kill men women and children, they can do it.

Lynette Fromme

Anybody can kill anybody.

Jeffrey Kluger

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

David Gorscyca

Consent is not a defense in the taking of the life of another.

Pat Brown

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

Sebastian Junger

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Benjamin Tucker

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Sheikh Salman Al-Oadah

The killing of innocents is murder, even during times of war. The one who intentionally kills these innocent people is a murderer who deserves the punishment for murder. Terrorism is categorically prohibited in Islam.

Robert J. Sawyer

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

Henry Rollins

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

Basil I

She who purposely destroys the fetus, shall suffer the punishment of murder… Those who give drugs for procuring abortion, and those who receive poisons to kill the foetus, are subjected to the same penalty as murder

Basil the Great

Ice T

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

James Dashner

Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.

Seneca the Younger

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

Elie Wiesel

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

United Nations

… intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable to protect life.

The United States has agreed to this treaty. The principle is part of the law in most states except Florida and a few other jurisdictions which have adopted “stand your ground” legislation.

Philip Gourevitch

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

Mark David Chapman

I wasn't angry the night I shot him.

Intentional Killing Quotes