Ambition Quote by George W. Bush

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether…

— Roger Williams

“men are guilty of the greatest crimes from ambition, and not from necessity,”

— Aristotle

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to…

— Anonymous

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of…

— Plato

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show…

— Walter Raleigh

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach…

— Robert H. Jackson

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ignorant mass looks upon the man who makes a violent protest against our social and economic iniquities as upon a wild beast, a…

— Emma Goldman

It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

— J. William Fulbright

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

— James Russell Lowell