A Quote by James Alan Fox

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

James Alan Fox

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James Alan Fox
American - Professor
Born: 1951

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

Colin Wilson

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

Christopher Hitchens

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Graham Greene

The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.

Robert Dessaix

One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.

Dalai Lama

I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.

Joe Gilgun

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

Thomas Harris

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

Alvin Toffler

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

Bernadine Dohrn

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Jim Rohn

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Catherine McAuley

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

John W. Gardner

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

Matt Chandler

The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.