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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." »Albert Camus
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"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." »William James
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." »Eustace Budgell
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"We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions." »Thomas Troward
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"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire." »Orison Swett Marden
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"All children are essentially criminal." »Denis Diderot
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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." »Abraham Lincoln
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"It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading." »Coleridge
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." »Bertrand Russell
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"The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved." »Publilius Syrus
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"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein
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"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal." »Erich Fromm
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"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal." »Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
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"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense." »E.W. Dijkstra
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott
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"There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott, Economist
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"criminal A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott
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"It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent." »Johnson
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"More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein
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"I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler
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"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." »Mark Twain
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"What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here." »Julie Cochrane
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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." »Colin Greenwood
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"I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end." »Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
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