Quotes About Manslaughter

“In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!”

— Abbie Hoffman

“The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world”

— Dean Cavanagh

“So, what are you in for? MANSLAUGHTER!!! I SLAUGHTERED A MAN!! JUST LIKE A PIG!!! PUT HIM ON A SPIT AND PUT AN APPLE IN HIS MOUTH!!!!”

— Brian Regan

“The authorities in Yorkshire have rounded up their rioters, and divided them into those to be charged with affray and manslaughter, and those to be indicted for murder and rape. Rape? Since when do food riots involve rape? But I forget, this is Yorkshire.530”

— Hilary Mantel

“Mustardseed grinned at Bertie. "I was never any good at geometry, but you're stuck in a love triangle, aren't you?"
"Shut up," she ordered even as Moth asked, "But what if there were four of them?"
"That's a love rectangle, and five people would be a love pentagon."
"And what are six people in love?" Cobweb demanded.
Mustardseed thought it over a moment. "Manslaughter, I suppose.”

— Lisa Mantchev

“Manslaughter, not murder.”

— John Lescroart

“In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.”

— Roger Ascham

“It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.”

— Albert Wynn

“We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?”

— Seneca

“It's grand theft auto." "No problem, I'll drive." Jack sighed. "No, let's not add manslaughter, being-slaughter, destruction of public property, and reckless endangerment to the list." He”

— Gini Koch

“Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible ... Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“... it's better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.”

— Plato

“Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.”

— Paul Driessen

“There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.”

— Laura Hall

“If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.”

— Laozi