Manslaughter Quotes

I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

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

I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

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

If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.

… murderer and peasant slayer

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

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

I don't believe in murder.

Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.

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

It's wrong to kill.

What is murder in the first degree? It is the cruel, calculated, cold-blooded killing of a fellow human man. It is the most wicked of crimes and the State is guilty of it every time it executes a human being.

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

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

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

I wasn't the man. If you want someone to kill people, you had to find somebody else.

Anybody can kill anybody.

There is certainly nothing anomalous in punishing the crime of murder differently in different jurisdictions.

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

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

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

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.