Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican state. It is a barbarous logic to punish it by duplicating it by another crime.
Murder is abstract: One pulls the trigger and after that one does not understand anything that happens.
Murder is doubtless a serious crime, but if private murder really were a major threat to our civilization it would not be relaxing to read about it.
Murder is not the same thing as killing. All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.
Crocodiles on the banks of the Nile River are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year.
I've often wanted to drown my troubles . . .but I can't get my wife to go swimming
There are times when I miss you so bad . . .I wish I could remember where I hid your body

Dolphins can kill sharks by ramming them with their snout
Murder is about power and, as such, the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
Coconuts kill over 150 people each year (more than sharks)
