Crime Quote by John Flanagan

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in his path,…

— Agatha Christie

“We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else.”

— Albert Camus

“My point is not to grieve for the victims and denounce the executioners. Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral…

— Howard Zinn

“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

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

— Saint Augustine

“No more self-defeating device could be discovered than the one society has developed in dealing with the criminal. It proclaims his career in such…

— Frank Tannenbaum

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public…

— Saint Augustine

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.”

— Marcel Proust

“...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still…

— John Stuart Mill

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”

— Agatha Christie

“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.”

— Joel Norris