Believe Quote by Samuel Johnson

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

— Samuel Johnson

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

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend…

— Vittorio Alfieri

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his…

— Owen Feltham

“A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he…

— Alexandre Dumas

The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as…

— David Hume

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.”

— Christina Stead

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into…

— John Stuart Mill

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say,"…

— Terry Pratchett

“men are guilty of the greatest crimes from ambition, and not from necessity,”

— Aristotle