Crimes Quotes

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
Ernst Zundel

Leadership, War, Government

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
Ida B. Wells

Women, Men, Through

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
Robert Trout

Ugly, India, British

The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.
Hun Sen

Leaders, Committed, Trial

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Paul Eldridge

Against, Few, Ourselves

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Behind, Privacy, Hide

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle

History, Nothing, Human

'White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.
Tim DeKay

Funny, Smart, Sometimes

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
Trevor Phillips

Travel, Children, Free

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.
Catherine Crier

Time, Week, Quite

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.
James Donald

Far, Against, Left

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.
Bill Bennett

Done, Nation, United

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.
Pete Domenici

Through, State, Committed

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
Franjo Tudjman

War, Emotional, Dead

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
Liu Xiaobo

Hope, Long, Words

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.
Terence Fisher

Sex, Black, Strange

For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
Flea

Music, School, Focus

How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.
Caryl Chessman

Light, Wrong, Mistake

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
Mel Carnahan

Time, Sex, Past

What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
Fatou Bensouda

Powerful, Forget, Focus

I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
Fatou Bensouda

Human, Giving, Country

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Gary Wills

War, Winners, Decide

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
Edward Blake

Great, Personal, While

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
Charles Guggenheim

War, Trying, American

I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitely banned.
Francois Bozize

Blood, Economic, Definitely

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Time, Men, Knowledge

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