I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages... of education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes r...egretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bad end, a sad end, was the last end of Mieze. And why, why, why? What crime had she committed? She came from Bernau into the wh...irl of Berlin, she was not an innocent girl, certainly not, but her love for him was pure and steadfast; he was her man and she took care of him like a child. She was struck down because she happened by chance to encounter this man; such is life, it's really inconceivable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his wife and babes, insanity, that makes... him eat grass; war, plague; cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lady Dellwyn ... for the first time began to entertain some suspicions that she had a heart to bestow. Not that she was actuated b...y that romantic passion which creates indifference to every other object and makes all happiness to consist in pleasing the beloved person, [but] only overstraining delicacy so much as to feel it almost a crime to charm any other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they alrea...dy had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now, it may be stretching an analogy to compare epidemics of cholera--caused by a known agent--with that epidemic of violent crime... which is destroying our cities. It is unlikely that our social problems can be traced to a single, clearly defined cause in the sense that a bacterial disease is "caused" by a microbe. But, I daresay, social science is about as advanced in the late twentieth century as bacteriological science was in the mid nineteenth century. Our forerunners knew something about cholera; they sensed that its spread was associated with misdirected sewage, filth, and the influx of alien poor into crowded, urban tenements. And we know something about street crime; nowhere has it been reported that a member of the New York Stock Exchange has robbed a poor, black teenager at the point of a gun. Indeed, I am naively confident that an enlightened social scientist of the next century will be able to point out that we had available to us at least some of the clues to the cause of urban crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his cri...me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »