Crime Quotes by Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo

Despotism is a long crime.

— Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

— Victor Hugo

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

— Victor Hugo

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

— Victor Hugo

“When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!”

— Victor Hugo

When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

— Victor Hugo

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and…

— Victor Hugo

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears…

— Victor Hugo

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of…

— Victor Hugo

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and…

— Victor Hugo

“becoming a sort of outrage perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against the individual, a crime which…

— Victor Hugo

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What…

— Victor Hugo

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered…

— Victor Hugo

“Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you…

— Victor Hugo