Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hunger And Poverty, World, Crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.99

• What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Cutting, Men, Yawning

• Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Evil, Action

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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