“Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.”

“The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.”

“It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!”

“I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.”

“My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon forty sins, who sucked the lifeblood of the poor, and you call that a crime ?”

“Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.”