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“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the…

— Livy

“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth…

— Judith Flanders

“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?”

— Jean Said Makdisi

“When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with…

— Mary Shelley

“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonour, nor violence indicate possession.”

— Julia Ward Howe

“If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to perpetrate it.”

— Grant Allen

“No jury, we knew, could convict a man on the criminal count on native evidence in a land where you can buy a murder-charge,…

— Rudyard Kipling

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say,"…

— Terry Pratchett

“Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above the state…

— George Orwell

“There, publicly throwing off the mask under which he had hitherto concealed his real character and feelings, he made a speech painting in vivid…

— Livy

“For there is no true equivalence between languages, and English law differs from civil law in both its genesis and its practice.”

— Jovan Autonomašević