In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
—Ernest Hemingway
In our age the greatest and most harmful crimes aren’t those that are committed occasionally, but those that are committed every day without being recognized as crimes.
—Leo Tolstoy
We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
—Seneca
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
—Aristotle
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and a cruelty, too.
—Sigmund Freud