Born Quote by John Steinbeck

“Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if…

— John Steinbeck

“Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so…

— John Steinbeck

Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

— Mary McCarthy

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of…

— Bernhard Schlink

“To admit that some people literally have no conscience is not technically the same as saying that some human beings are evil, but it…

— Martha Stout

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

All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.

— Amanda Knox

“A man without conscience is but a poor creature...”

— James Fenimore Cooper

Man without conscience is wilder and more dangerous than any beast.

— Peter Hitchens

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

— Robert Burns

“How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us…

— Dan Skinner

“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny…

— John Steinbeck