I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.

It is a terrible thing to strangle a king.
Why? Kings have but one neck, like other folk.

If you shoot a man across a field or even a room, you don't get the full impact of what you've done. Facing an opponent one-on-one, hand-to-hand or with a sword, you have to accept your personal responsibility. Killing somebody ought to be messy. You should be sprayed with his blood, you should be able to hear him scream, catch the death rattle, smell the feces and urine as the bowels and bladder let go. You should have to dispose of the body so you know exactly what it was you did.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day.

He shrugged. As if that was something people did. Not good, but not shocking.

Hominubus Deus Vitan Donavit, Ergo Illam Jactare Potest Homo Solos. It means 'God gave men the gift of life; therefore only man can take the gift away.' In other words, human life is so sacred that the devil can't touch it. Only human beings, who are given the life in the first place - have the power to throw it away, through murder or suicide. So Satan doesn't kill people - people kill people.

Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

It is the honor of the murdered that he is not the murderer.

I saw you as you were. Then I thought of your body as one thinks of murder. . .

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.