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“The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.”

Firsts Humans Two States Individual Crime Conscience Privilege Dare Commit Guilty Folds

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

“We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.”

May Stills Lying Order Crime Ignorance Conscience Excuse Stupidity Commit Tolerate Monstrous Possessing Incomprehension

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.”

Humans Faces Lying Horror Racism Conscience Victim Injustice Commit Prisoner Oppressors Facing The Truth Sears Human Equality

Author:Alveda King

“The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.”

Men Reason Feelings Government Action Influence Son Conscience Slave Contrary Commit Patriotism Patriot Immoral Free Man Scoundrels Confessing Fatherland

Book:I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.”

Ifs Men Humans Important Easy Hours Human Beings Compassion Crime Diversity Conscience Fellows Commit Instance

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.”

“There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.”

Soul Spiritual Can Do Sin Crime Conscience Commit Assault

Author:Vikram Chatwal