Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Benjamin Crump

An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

Tony Goldwyn

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

May Sarton

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

Bianca Jagger

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

Agatha Christie

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

Agatha Christie

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

Joseph Addison

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

Derek Bailey

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

David Suchet

It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable.

Debra Messing

Everything has to do with murder.

Donald Trump

Nothing even comes a close second. Hillary Clinton, for instance, talks constantly about her fears that families will be separated, but she's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their loved ones because of a preventable homicide, because of a preventable death, because of murder.

Alberto Fujimori

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Albert Camus

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Alfred Hitchcock

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

Ann Rule

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Thomas Paine

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Bill Maher

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

Jane Smiley

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Baltasar Gracian

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Ludwig von Mises

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.