Carl Panzram Quotes

I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it.

Today I am dirty, but tomorrow I'll be just dirt.

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.

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.

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.

Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you're fooling around!

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?

Stockpiling serial-killer lore is a rite of passage for guys in their twenties who want to seem dark and edgy. I was precisely the kind of dork who, in my twenties, would do anything to seem dark and edgy. And there I was, all through the flannel nineties, rattling off minutiae about Henry Lee Lucas and Carl Panzram and Edmund Kemper.

I don't believe in man, God nor devil. I hate the whole damned human race including myself.

It seemed to me then and still does now that everything was always right for the one who was the strongest.

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.

When pain reaches a certain point, then it has reached the limit and can be no worse.

Men have always had intelligence which never has increased--only knowledge has kept advancing.

We do each other as we are done by.

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.

Those who make and enforce the laws are more guilty than those who commit the crimes against the law.

I did not make myself what I am. Others had the making of me.