Murder Victims Quotes

• El asesinato es único en el sentido de que suprime a la parte a la que lesiona, de modo que la sociedad tiene que ocupar el lugar de la víctima y, en su nombre, exigir expiación o conceder el perdón; es el único delito en el que la sociedad tiene un interés directo.

  W. H. Auden

  Forgiveness, Party, Unique

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• One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

  Eric Schlosser

  Grief, Reality, Justice

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• It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cutting, Two, Born

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Cute, Boys, Two

  Raymond Chandler (1983). “The Chandler Collection: Pearls are a nuisance ; Smart-aleck kill ; Killer in the rain”

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• The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

  Steve Earle

  Lying, Ideas, Violence

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• La palabra superviviente sugiere a alguien que ha salido con vida de un accidente aéreo o una catástrofe natural. Pero la palabra también puede referirse a los seres queridos de las víctimas de asesinatos, y este fue el sentido en que se utilizó en una conferencia de cuatro días celebrada a principios de junio en el Boston College.

  Godfried Danneels

  College, June, Boston

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• It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

  Lisa Gardner

  Niños, Sacrificio, Hombres

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• I'm done with the shows about "women got murdered by husband." My wife watches them constantly, but it makes me want to kill myself. They serve no purpose. They're not news shows. They just exploit all of these murder victims.

  Billy Lawrence

  Husband, Wife, Watches

  Fuente: www.vulture.com

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• En un mundo lleno de guerras, hambre, opresión, engaño, monotonía, ¿qué -aparte de la eterna inocencia de los animales- ofrece una imagen de esperanza? ¿Una madre con un recién nacido en brazos? El niño puede acabar siendo un asesino o una víctima de asesinato, de modo que la imagen esperanzadora es una prefiguración de una pietà: una madre con su hijo recién muerto en el regazo.

  Harry Mulisch

  Madre, Hijos, Guerra

  Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't talk to someone who is dead.

  Mark Haddon

  Latin, Stupid, Mean

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• According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

  Alafair Burke

  Girlfriend, Half, Statistics

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