“There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.”
To Leon Goldensohn, April 8, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
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German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz concentration … 1901–1947Related quotes
See also "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." (misattributed to Joseph Stalin)
Question Time (22 March 2007).
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Context: I was born about a quarter of a mile from where we are sitting now and I was here in London during the Blitz. And every night I went down into the shelter. 500 people killed, my brother was killed, my friends were killed. And when the Charter of the UN was read to me, I was a pilot coming home in a troop ship: 'We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.' That was the pledge my generation gave to the younger generation and you tore it up. And it's a war crime that's been committed in Iraq, because there is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
Speaking to a his daughter Benazir Bhutto, as quoted in her book Daughter of the East (1989).
Si l'on veut abolir la peine de mort en ce cas, que MM. les assassins commencent: qu'ils ne tuent pas, on ne les tuera pas.
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Les Guêpes, January 1849, vi.
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966), Ch. 2 "Roots of War", p. 36-37
“A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 11.