Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for… — Armand Deutsch Copy Share Image
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Smart on Crime says if you commit violent crimes, you should go to jail, and go to jail for extended periods of… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing… — Sam Richards Copy Share Image
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
“He was so effectually screened by his great wealth that he was called to no account for his crimes, not even for… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The increasing crimes in Chennai have become a cause for concern. Chain snatching has become a routine affair. — Tamilisai Soundararajan Copy Share Image
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules, but by people following the rules.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I think we would all agree that people should not be jailed for thoughts. But when, if ever, does a thought cross… — Gil Valle Copy Share Image
In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them. — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of… — Flea Copy Share Image
I have been accused of many crimes. A TV channel even put up a show called 'Sins of Asin!' — Asin Copy Share Image
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
The worlds worst crimes are not committed by the hungry people; they are committed by the over-fed! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou are ... entrusted with the pursuit of that most extraordinary of crimes: the theft of a human life. You speak for… — David Simon Copy Share Image