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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. – Sir Thomas Browne

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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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Murderers are not monsters, theyre men. And thats the most frightening thing about them. – Alice Sebold

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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. – Albert Camus

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