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Crime Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
- Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
- What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and…
- What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether…
- Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They…
- All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
- Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
- Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman…
- [I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
- The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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