Dashiell Hammett Quotes

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

I have no record of racism or antisemitism, there is no evidence to support it, not even a shred of evidence.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

The danger that the massacres will surely ruin your state the same as it has destroyed those innocent Jewish victims, rather deepens my regret that you have till now not succeeded in suppressing fully the excesses

That’s like blaming the witch for the witch hunt.

You ask me, brother, why am I in here. Brother, why are you not in here?

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

Discrimination is a disease.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!