The glory of mighty men is given one quarter by their boldness, two quarters by luck and a quarter by their crimes.
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.