Jean Racine Quotes

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible circumstances could be capable of something like that? So it's about not judging people before really considering what the circumstance was and that not all murderers are created equal. We have a tendency in our society to just say murder? Cut and dried. Go away forever. Or maybe you should have the electric chair yourself.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Crime generally punishes itself.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

So many laws argues so many sins.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.