Erik King Quotes

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

To judge … any man … simply from his own point of view, is weak and illogical. History judges the man from its point of view. It condemns or applauds the point of view itself. The point of view of a malefactor is not to excuse robbery and murder. Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in favor of the evil-doer.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

As long as the law exists, there will be morality.

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

The criminal law tries to define moral standards.

Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.

In 'Maatr,' we do not justify taking the law into our hands. That's not the right thing to do. We are not promoting that.

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do.

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.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.