Crime Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name…

— George Bernard Shaw

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and…

— R. Thomas Ashbrook

“Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts…

— Euripides

“We who have been hunted through the rapids of life, torn from our former roots, always driven to the end and obliged to begin…

— Stefan Zweig

“Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers…

— John Stuart Mill

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more hideous crimes have been committed in the…

— C.P. Snow

“Strange that men, from age to age, should consent to hold their lives at the breath of another, merely that each in his turn…

— William Godwin

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it…

— George Orwell

“Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or…

— Jaime Buckley