Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet
Argument of Kings, 1987
“War is murder, king-sized.”
Source: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 18, “Festive Days on the Slopes of Vesuvius” (p. 281)
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Numbers sanctify.
Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Chaplin in this line is quoting an older statement of Bishop Beilby Porteus: "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero."