Murdered

Famous quotes containing the word murdered:

“...if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government—which can’t be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.”
—Helen Prejean (b. 1940)

“Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“You smile with pomp & rigor, you talk of benevolence & virtue;
I act with benevolence & virtue & get murdered time after time.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)