A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary. JAMES ALAN FOX Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Worry is a murderer. You are only saved with happy thoughts. LILY CHATTERJEE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national ... RAMMAN KENOUN He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent. PATRICK SüSKIND You can put a murderer in a suit, and he's still a murderer. ALLEN IVERSON Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... Being called a murderer: fine, I have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen hum... ARAVIND ADIGA Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD I’m a murderer, Ted! I’m a murderer. A dog murderer! I’m just like Phil Spector minus the musi... CHELSEA HANDLER Yes, if it came with a tag saying that Robert Blake is a murderer. ERIC DUBIN When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is... MAX ERNST I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Poverty is a blessing only if regarded as starting point VICTOR PEREZ CENTENO A murderer is a killer without a uniform. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent... WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS You will see that the defendant is nothing but a cold, calculated, callous murderer, TOM O'CONNOR For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as d... ANTHONY STORR There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. W... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS One man may not kill. If he kills a fellow-creature, he is a murderer. If two, ten, a hundred men do... LEO TOLSTOY Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded ... WILLIAM OSLER Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged Kin... STEPHEN LEACOCK Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged Kin... STEPHEN LEACOCK Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not u... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Mr. MacLean is not a murderer. And he's been punished by his own injury. FRANK BECKER Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as d... ANTHONY STORR Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as d... ANTHONY STORR A man can be himself only so long as he is alone;
if he does not love solitude, he will not love fre... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he,... CRISS JAMI A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The jury saw right through the defendant's lies, ... He told them what he is: a cold-blooded murdere... DAVID PASCOE It was like you just told me my brother is an ax murderer. DANIEL YOVICH An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still i... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA You are not a murderer. I find it difficult to think of that as a personality flaw. MARISSA MEYER Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as ... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Murderer, monster, madman... Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he's also loved. By me... RENEE AHDIEH Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. AGATHA CHRISTIE Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend AGATHA CHRISTIE But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in othe... BIBLE We thought this case was pure intimidation; the only thing stopping us from getting the murderer bro... CATHERINE MCCARTNEY They kill them; you gave them the alcohol, that makes you a murderer as well. BOB SCHWARTZ What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (He) is not a cold-blooded murderer, ladies and gentlemen, he reacted. There was no thought process. DION CUSTIS If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ... JOHN MILTON If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. G. K. CHESTERTON Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks. CRISS JAMI You allow the world to think you're a heartless murderer," I tell him. "And you're not." ... TAHEREH MAFI By promoting a serial murderer into the national hero, his victims are being killed once again and S... VUK DRASKOVIC A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them b... MAAJID NAWAZ The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. BIBLE When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arroga... GARRY TRUDEAU Your friend Mikey knew what my touch could do, but he didn’t tell me. He turned me into a murderer... NEAL SHUSTERMAN The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer... PAULA POUNDSTONE The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer PAULA POUNDSTONE Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fat... FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. AGATHA CHRISTIE You're just a crazy murderer who's confused himself with a god.... nothing more, nothing less. TSUGUMI OHBA The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris... SIGMUND FREUD It is illogical for the victim to be pressed to recognize its murderer and occupier. What is require... KHALED MESHAAL The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home. BEN OAK I invite the Israel, the international community, the world to listen carefully, to remember careful... AHMED QOREI I love my murderer--but yours? How can I? EMILY BRONTë A man is only as good as what he loves SAUL BELLOW A man is only as good as what he loves. SAUL BELLOW In other words, the very man Robert Kennedy recruited to kill Fidel Castro hired his brother's murde... WILFRIED HUISMANN Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e... MARGARET MEAD It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e... MARGARET MEAD Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON They're targeting guys who dress like me -- guys who dress hip-hop. Put a murderer in a suit, and he... ALLEN IVERSON
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