Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

6493. A light Purse
Is a heavy Curse.

black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue

There is a curse on this house.

One man’s wickedness becomes all men’s curse.

Now a curse upon Because and his kin!

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.

Constantius declares a curse on those who perform the magic arts and thereby “jeopardize the lives of innocent persons.”

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

An orphans curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! How more horrible that that
Is the curse in a dead man’s eye!

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might!

It is a crime to poison the minds of the meek and the humble, to stoke the passions of reactionism and intolerance, by appealing to that odious anti-Semitism that, unchecked, will destroy the freedom-loving France of the Rights of Man. It is a crime to exploit patriotism in the service of hatred, and it is, finally, a crime to ensconce the sword as the modern god, whereas all science is toiling to achieve the coming era of truth and justice.