Hans Frank Quotes

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.

You don't know what the [ethical] rules are until the gallows pull up in front of your door and they drag you out to hang you.

A murder is not a martyr. He or she is just a murderer.

The sorry path that remains for me to follow from an obscure prison to the gallows has been trodden by men with more merit than my own.

I just felt sick. I was actually executing people. I knew it was wrong, and I should have voted against it. But I didn’t.

I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.

I can only say sorry for the past. I can't change it.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

You have such a big responsibility. This person is still alive. You would think that they think highly of themselves and their accomplishments and what they've done. You can only hope to bring justice to that.

Little late for that now. I don’t think an ‘Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds’ will work to get me out of this. (Devyn)

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

I feel your scorn, and I accept it.

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

All this has been my fault.

This is one I know you hated when you heard it and it's worse because you know that I deserve it

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.