Crime Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

“Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.”

— Christina Stead

“The crimes of others are a secret language among us. Through them we show ourselves what we might be capable of, after all.”

— Margaret Atwood

“people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of…

— Timothy Snyder

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a common-wealth. In…

— John Adams

“The need to humiliate those who raise their heads is an ineradicable element of the imperial mentality. In”

— Noam Chomsky

“If we punished only the crimes we could prove, we would not enjoy the pleasure of dragging our fellow human beings to the scaffold…

— Marquis de Sade

“ ...there is no head of state in the world today who is not in virtuality a criminal . Those who shoulder the dreary…

— Giorgio Agamben

“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been…

— Alexandre Dumas

“In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of…

— Edmund Burke

“The Master said, Guide the people by law, aline them by punishment; they may shun crime, but they will want shame. Guide them by…

— Confucius

“I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for…

— Leonora Carrington

“Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.”

— S. E. Entsua-Mensah