Circumstances Quote by Charles Dickens

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not…

— Joseph Addison

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a man like…

— Frederick the Great

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

— Italo Svevo

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow…

— Mark the Evangelist

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

— Isaac Parker

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to…

— Flannery O'Connor

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most…

— Agatha Christie

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

— Publilius Syrus

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

— Aldous Huxley

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

— Robert Jordan