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> [In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/in-a-civilized-society-all-crimes-are-likely-to-be-sins-but-most-sins/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

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## More by Geoffrey Fisher

> [There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/there-are-only-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-modern-world-who-know-what/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/good-plans-shape-good-decisions-that-s-why-good-planning-helps-to/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/this-country-and-the-commonwealth-last-tuesday-were-not-far-from-the/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/once-you-start-there-is-no-end-to-who-is-to-go-in-and-who-is-to-be/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/i-have-asked-myself-once-or-twice-lately-what-was-my-natural-bent-i/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/in-one-sense-what-may-pass-between-the-pope-and-myself-may-be/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/freedom-is-the-opportunity-to-make-decisions/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/the-long-and-distressing-controversy-over-capital-punishment-is-very/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/there-is-a-sacred-realm-of-privacy-for-every-man-and-woman-where-he/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/in-cities-no-one-is-quiet-but-many-are-lonely-in-the-country-people/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/some-of-the-press-who-speak-loudly-about-the-freedom-of-the-press-are/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/who-knows-whether-in-retirement-i-shall-be-tempted-to-the-last/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/in-a-civilized-society-all-crimes-are-likely-to-be-sins-but-most-sins/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/i-hope-that-by-going-to-visit-the-pope-i-have-enabled-everybody-to/)

[Geoffrey Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-fisher/)

> [Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-fisher/until-you-know-that-life-is-interesting-and-find-it-so-you-haven-t/)

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