If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. (Denis Diderot)

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Denis Diderot

Related topics

criminal essential great kind petty realm respect spit sublime thief wickedness

Related quotes

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' View quote
Sigmund Freud
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled. View quote
Georg Büchner
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. View quote
Sydney Smith
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith