Heloise Quotes

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but from the bad intentions of men.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

If conduct is intentional, it could subject some of the criminal liability.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Prosecutors use the conspiracy doctrine to punish two or more people who merely agree to commit a criminal act. They don't even have to actually perform the act; they just need to have agreed to do so.

You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

The result justifies the deed.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

Vices are not crimes.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.