Justifiable Homicide Quotes

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

I don't believe in murder.

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

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

if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

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

Consent is not a defense in the taking of the life of another.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. The law allows all people to use deadly force to defend themselves in certain situations.

If a thief commits a theft by night, if the owner kills the thief, the thief shall be killed lawfully

Why should a man have a better right to kill his neighbor with a house than with an axe in the street?

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.

One may slay without hesitation an assassin who approaches with murderous intent…. By killing an assassin the slayer incurs no guilt, whether he does it publicly or secretly; in that case fury recoils upon fury

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

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

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher