William Randolph Hearst Quotes

I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.

Anybody can kill anybody.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

It's wrong to kill.

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.

I killed a Spaniard with my own hand, like a jackrabbit.

The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.

Who so ever kills a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he has killed all mankind, and who so ever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind

I believe it contrary to any standard of decency to execute someone who is actually innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

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

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.