Character Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who…

— Anonymous

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

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

— Robert A. Heinlein

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of…

— Virgil

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the…

— Aleister Crowley

...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

— Bhagat Singh

... 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

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not…

— Thomas B. Macaulay