Carl Panzram > Quotes

“I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it.”
― Carl Panzram

“Today I am dirty, but tomorrow I'll be just dirt.”
― Carl Panzram

“I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em.”
― Carl Panzram, Panzram: A Journal of Murder

“I am sorry for only two things. These two things are: I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my lifetime, and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damned human race.”
― Carl Panzram

“I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damned human race, including myself. I preyed upon the weak, the harmless and the unsuspecting. This lesson I was taught by others: might makes right.”
― Carl Panzram

“Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you're fooling around!”
― Carl Panzram

“Is it unnatural that I should have absorbed these things and have become what I am today, a treacherous, degenerate, brutal, human savage, devoid of all decent feeling, without conscience, morals, pity, sympathy, principle or any single good trait? Why am I what I am?”
― Carl Panzram

“When pain reaches a certain point, then it has reached the limit and can be no worse.”
― Carl Panzram, The Panzram Papers

“I did not make myself what I am. Others had the making of me.”
― Carl Panzram, The Panzram Papers

“This country is having a war right now and very few people even realize the fact. War, in the final analysis, is merely murder and robbery and the expenditure of life and property.”
― Carl Panzram, The Panzram Papers

“Those who make and enforce the laws are more guilty than those who commit the crimes against the law.”
― Carl Panzram, The Panzram Papers

“Men made me what I am today, and if men don't like what they have made of me, they must put the blame where it belongs.”
― Carl Panzram, The Panzram Papers

“I don't believe in man, God nor devil. I hate the whole damned human race including myself.”
― Carl Panzram, The Panzram Papers

“We do each other as we are done by.”
― Carl Panzram, The Panzram Papers

“Men have always had intelligence which never has increased--only knowledge has kept advancing.”
― Carl Panzram, The Panzram Papers

“It seemed to me then and still does now that everything was always right for the one who was the strongest.”
― Carl Panzram, The Panzram Papers