"He who can live in infamy is unworthy…" — Pierre Corneille

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• The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected;… — Samuel Johnson
• That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their… — James Madison
• The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught… — Marquis de Sade
• To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre… — Denis Diderot
• Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad… — James Madison
• Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present… — Thomas Jefferson
• What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment.… — Saint John Chrysostom
• Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece… — Marquis de Sade
• Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death… — Hal Porter
• No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless… — John T. Flynn
• The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most… — Alexander Hamilton

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