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“Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.”

Humans Heart Secret Virtue Victim Vices Driven Stealing Guilty Devoted Human Heart Infamy

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!”

Humans May Humanity Justice Party Alive Crime Victim Extremes Cruelty Guilty Burning Rest In Peace Crimes Against Humanity Burying

Author:Widad Akrawi

“How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.”

“To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?”

Two Form Law Individual Cutting Claims Victim Lays Notes Innocent Guilty Innocence Primitive Retaliation

Author:Albert Camus

“Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.”

“We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?”

Ifs Knows World Sometimes Turns Sin Fantasy Ready Judging Source Victim Innocent Guilty Judged Accused Casual Malice Schadenfreude

Book:Nuns and Soldiers

Source: Nuns and Soldiers

“I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.”

Ifs Ends Next Fiction Cases Planets Birth Periods Humorous Victim Tired Guilt Hearing Proof Innocent Guilty Reports I'm Tired Certificates Birth Certificate Innocent Victims

Author:George Carlin

“Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.”

Doe Reason Eye Humanity Pieces Hundred Victim Prison Endure Punishment Guilty Rebellion Good Sense Infamy Crime And Punishment

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.”

Men Heart Rights Violence Crime Victim Corruption Guilty Bully Oppressors

Book:The Betrothed

Source: The Betrothed

“A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.”

Ifs Justice Victim Seeking Criminals Trials Guilty Verdict

Author:Alan Dershowitz