Ludivine Sagnier Quotes

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone

Society, by setting forth clear penalties for certain kinds of conduct sets its public ratification on moral judgments that this is wrong behavior and that it is deserving of punishment irrespective of whether the punishment will deter, rehabilitate or anything else. It is a way of society of defining what is wrong and what is seriously wrong.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

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

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Court rules do not cause crime.

Good laws derive from evil habits.

Obviously crime pays, or there would be no crime.

The more laws the more offenders

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.

It's very much simpler to get rid of any written rule you choose than it is an item of customary morality... while laws are preserved on tablets of wood or stone, customary morality is engraved deep in our living souls

Conscience and public opinion enforce the laws. The police suppress the exceptions.

The time for the State to protect himself against the criminal is before the criminal is made. Most criminals are not born, they are made.... What a State really punishes in a criminal is its own neglect, it's own failure to do its duty to the citizens.

The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

Justice is inextricably linked to revenge, which is both morally right and a deeply internalized instinct as innate to man as breathing, having sex, falling in love, and making war.

None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.