Crime Quote by Judge Webster Thayer

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of…

— Anonymous

“A deep-seated ambivalence has always characterized the official response to the political prisoner. Charged and tried for the criminal act, his guilt is always…

— Joy James

“A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he…

— Alexandre Dumas

“During my stay in the United States, I witnessed the spontaneous formation of committees in a country for the pursuit and prosecution of a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“I write that crime is an unlawful act of violence that can be committed by anyone, and that punishment is the consequence designed for…

— Mahbod Seraji

[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression…

— Ayn Rand

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

“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

“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

“Yet, with a weakness of mind not uncommon to great criminals, he shrank from the thoughts of his own baseness and cruelty, and endeavored…

— Walter Scott

“In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about…

— Robert Zaretsky

“Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of crimes…

— Michelle Alexander