Voltaire Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

• Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

  Voltaire

  History, Crime, Dump

  L'Ingenu ch. 10 (1767) See Gibbon 4

• Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

  Voltaire

  Passion, Inspire, Atheism

  Voltaire (2012). “Philosophical Dictionary”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

  Voltaire

  War, Color, Justice

• History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

  Voltaire

  History, Crime, Register

• History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

  Voltaire

  Historical, Records, Crime

• History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

  Voltaire

  Happy Times, History, Virtue

  Voltaire, John Morley, William F. Fleming, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1904). “The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history”

• History is the study of the world's crime

  Voltaire

  World, Study, Crime

• Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

  Voltaire

  Fear, Punishment, Prison

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