Crimes Quotes

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Society, Born, White

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury

Reading, Books, Worse

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
Tupac Shakur

Anybody, Committed, Honorable

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Women, Nothing

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Clint Eastwood

Society, Children, Reason

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

History, Register

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

History, Nothing, Indeed

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson

Revenge, Justice, Passion

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
Ted Nugent

Time, Study, Again

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
James T. Walsh

Children, Innocent, Duty

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success, Offensive

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie

Justice, Put, Often

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
George W. Bush

Government, Guilty, Innocent

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Through, Become, Innocent

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Others, Suspect

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
James Russell Lowell

Men, Themselves, Belief

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler

Justice, Sometimes, She

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

Men, True, Rather

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin

Women, Men, Freedom

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Simone Weil

Greatest, Past, Perhaps

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Said, Difficult, Face

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
Desiderius Erasmus

Great, Two, Guilty

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Augustus Hare

Sometimes, Almost, Shock

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel

Older, Begin, Credit

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Beautiful, Her

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
Bob Ney

Society, Nothing, Nation

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Lydia M. Child

Life, Love, Lie

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon

History, Mankind, Indeed

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
Simon Wiesenthal

Justice, Humanity, Against

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
Michael Badnarik

Money, Pay, Market

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