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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profi

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. – Lewis H. Lapham

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Its frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. – W. H. Auden

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I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. – Euripides

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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. – Octave Mirbeau

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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime? – Marquis De Sade

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