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3. “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.”
W.H. Auden
Murder, Society, Justice, Forgiveness, Social Responsibility
4. “A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.” Arthur Conan Doyle Murder, Investigation, Metaphor, Detective Work, Life And Death
5. “So I am mad, you say? You should have seen how careful I was to put the body where no one could find it. First I cut off the head, then the arms and the legs. I was careful not to let a single drop of blood fall on the floor. I pulled up three of the boards that formed the floor, and put the pieces of the body there. Then I put the boards down again, carefully, so carefully that no human eye could see that they had been moved.” Edgar Allan Poe Murder, Madness, Guilt, Meticulousness, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Horror
6. “One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; – hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; – hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; – hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin.” Edgar Allan Poe Murder, Regret, Guilt, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Turmoil, Moral Conflict
10. “The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.” Orson Scott Card Murder, Contest, Perspective, Morality, Self-perception, Ethical Relativism
Murder Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “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.”
W.H. Auden Murder, Society, Justice, Forgiveness, Social Responsibility
4. “A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Murder, Investigation, Metaphor, Detective Work, Life And Death
5. “So I am mad, you say? You should have seen how careful I was to put the body where no one could find it. First I cut off the head, then the arms and the legs. I was careful not to let a single drop of blood fall on the floor. I pulled up three of the boards that formed the floor, and put the pieces of the body there. Then I put the boards down again, carefully, so carefully that no human eye could see that they had been moved.”
Edgar Allan Poe Murder, Madness, Guilt, Meticulousness, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Horror
6. “One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; – hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; – hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; – hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin.”
Edgar Allan Poe Murder, Regret, Guilt, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Turmoil, Moral Conflict
10. “The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.”
Orson Scott Card Murder, Contest, Perspective, Morality, Self-perception, Ethical Relativism
