Cesare Lombroso

“Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.”

“The primitive man is an adult who has remained a child.”

“Crime is to society what madness is to an individual.”

“The atavistic criminal is the savage and the madman in one.”

“In reality, for the political criminal, the love of country is an overpowering passion which absorbs all his other feelings.”

“There is no doubt that the men of genius are all strangely disordered in their conduct.”

“The born criminal is an epileptic from a moral point of view.”

“The anarchist is, as it were, a political criminal, but he is also an impulsive and passionate man.”

“We are governed by silent laws, and not by the arbitrary will of the legislator.”

“Art is a true madness, and the artist is a true degenerate.”

“The criminal is a product of his own organization.”

“What is genius? It is a morbid, degenerative, and epileptoid condition of the nervous centers.”

“The born female criminal is, so to speak, doubly exceptional, as a woman and as a criminal.”