Christianity Quote by Ray Russell

“The insanity of our rulers also calls down punishments upon us which we have merited for a long time so that our princes become…

— Martin Luther

“As you have observed, it is the nature of human beings to exploit one another ruthlessly and to ravage nature as well, again and…

— Dean Koontz

“My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon forty sins,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Elka nodded. “Right after he said we’d been sold to a murdering tyrant. Yes.” Julius Caesar. The tyrant. I could barely believe I’d been…

— Lesley Livingston

“And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow,…

— Gogol Nicolai

“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous wickedness, secret…

— John William Polidori

“There is no crime in anyone’s blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others. Criminals are not born. They are…

— Khuswant Singh

“Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous,…

— William Shakespeare

“Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?”

— Oakley Hall

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them.…

— Joe Abercrombie

“And yet—he thought—through all the generations of political extortion, it was not the looting bureaucrats who had taken the blame, but the chained industrialists,…

— Ayn Rand