An escape from penalty is better than petitioning the judges.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

Some evil men would be less dangerous if there were no good in them at all.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds it better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent party suffer.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

the question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.