Contagion Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may…

— William Shakespeare

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to…

— Natsuo Kirino

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

— Jean Racine

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

— Jean Racine

“Crime was like litter tossed on the highway: once it was shoved out the window the only ones who cared were the ones close…

— Rebecca Forster

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its…

— Charles Dickens

“Every crime like this needs someone like me to look away and say nothing.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

— Alissa Nutting

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize…

— Edwin S. Shneidman

Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that…

— William Hazlitt

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track…

— Charles Sturt

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are…

— E. P. Thompson

“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.”

— David Foster Wallace