Oriana Fallaci Quotes

A murder is not a martyr. He or she is just a murderer.

As a society are we going to murder people to show that murder is wrong

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

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

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

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I don't believe in murder.

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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.'

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

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

I believe that capital punishment serves no useful purpose and is a form of revenge.

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

As to polygamy, I charge it to be … evil—a scarlet whore!

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.

If a man commits a crime with an honorable motive, he will go free. If a man witnesses a female relative in an immoral act and kills her, he will go free.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.

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