Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroysmy property, and kills or threatenstokill me or those that are in it, and to'bind me in all cases whatsoever'to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?

-Paine,Thomas
  The Crisis, introduction, Dec.

One murder made a villain Millions a hero.

-Porteus, Beilby
  'Death'.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

I met Murder on the wayö He had a mask like Castlereagh.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'The Mask of Anarchy', alluding to English foreign secretaryViscount Castlereagh, who was held responsible for the Peterloo Massacre in1819.

   Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel- picking, murder, homicide, and agreateffusionof blood, as daily experiences teaches.

-Stubbes, Philip
  Anatomie of Abuses in the Realme of England.

Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out.

-Webster,John
  The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc.2.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshedöthey produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

-Welles, (George) Orson
  Harry Lime's speech to Holly Martins as he leaves the great wheel,TheThird Man.This phrase was added to the script by Welles who played Harry Lime.

Murder is always a mistake† One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.19.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:ö We murder to dissect. Enough of science and of art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

-Wordsworth,William
  'TheTablesTurned', stanzas 6^8.