If you think that by killing men you can prevent someone from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken.  That is not a way of escape which is either possible or honorable. The easiest and noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.

Socrates (c.470-399 BC) Greek philosopher

In Plato, Apology, sec. 39 [tr. Jowett (1894)]