Ambitious Quote by Amadeo Bordiga

Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid…

— Walter Savage Landor

“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is…

— Oscar Wilde

“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more hideous crimes have been committed in the…

— C.P. Snow

“As you have observed, it is the nature of human beings to exploit one another ruthlessly and to ravage nature as well, again and…

— Dean Koontz

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which…

— Robert H. Jackson

“This short history should have something to satisfy every taste and perversion: action, treachery, fratricide and regicide, corruption, and bloodshed. It contains thirteen murders,…

— R.A. Lafferty

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of…

— C.P. Snow

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even…

— Jim Fergus

“The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life which shields…

— Leo Tolstoy

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million…

— Helen Keller