Society and the World

The perfect servant, when his master makes humane advances to him, feels that his existence is threatened, and hastens to change his place.

The perfect servant, when his master makes humane advances to him, feels that his existence is threatened, and hastens to change his place.

Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.

It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.

It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.

Great men refuse titles because they are jealous of them.

Great men refuse titles because they are jealous of them.

Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.

The assassin Czolgosz made President McKinley a hero by assassinating him. The United States of America made Czolgosz a hero by the same process.

The assassin Czolgosz made President McKinley a hero by assassinating him. The United States of America made Czolgosz a hero by the same process.