"Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify."
— Charlie Chaplin

January 1, 1970

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Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Chaplin in this line is quoting an older statement of Bishop Beilby Porteus: "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero."