See also "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." (misattributed to Joseph Stalin)
“Formerly, if you killed a man, it was possible that you were insane—but now, if you, having friends and money, kill a man, it is evidence that you are a lunatic.”
"A New Crime", first published as "The New Crime" in the Buffalo Express, 16 April 1870. Anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old http://books.google.com/books?id=5LcIAAAAQAAJ (1875).
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
Variant: When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Buck Fletcher in Showdown at Two-Bit Creek; Cited in: Joseph A. West (2004) Ralph Compton, Showdown at Two-Bit Creek, p. 103
Source: Kill the Dead
“You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.”
The Hairless Mexican (1927)
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To Leon Goldensohn, April 8, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004