Angel Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its…

— Friedrich Schiller

“Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable…

— Mary Shelley

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

— Multatuli

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by…

— Samuel Johnson

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ The Criminal Element spoke often, and passionately, about the nefarious activities that every human being is capable of. Not only did it insist…

— Kate DiCamillo

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting,…

— Simone Weil

“The biggest crime in the human history is the formulation of wicked states, which has been rooted to such an extent that we are…

— Anup Joshi

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so…

— Hosea Ballou

“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings are roused…

— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker