Pope Sixtus V quotes

“While I live, every criminal must die.”
-- Pope Sixtus V

Source : "Age of Reason Begins: Volume 7", by Will and Ariel Durant, (p. 240), 1961.

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“It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.”
-- Pope Sixtus V

Source : "Woman Through the Ages: Volume 2". Book by Emil Reich, p. 38, 1908.

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“In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again.”
-- Pope Sixtus V

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“I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.199, Granta Books

“Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.”

“They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.”

“Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”

“The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning and exploiting class and a property-less dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose.”

Source : "The Criminality of the State". "The American Mercury" Magazine, March 1939.

“We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.”

“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.”

“atrophy of feeling creates criminals.”

“I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly.”

“A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.”