Action Quote by Michel de Montaigne

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten…

— Michel de Montaigne

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

— Michel de Montaigne

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

— Grover Cleveland

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

— Voltaire

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

— Isaac Parker

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

— Patricia Highsmith

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country,…

— Voltaire

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

— Anonymous

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive…

— Adam Smith

He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.

— David Haye

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

— Joseph Addison