Crimes Quotes
611 quotes by 484 authors
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime…
— Hannah Arendt
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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…
— Michael Badnarik
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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…
— Honore de Balzac
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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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
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
— Samuel Butler
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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…
— Lord Byron
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You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face…
— David Cameron
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Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.
— Cher
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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…
— Lydia M. Child
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
— Warren Christopher
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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…
— Agatha Christie
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All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for…
— William J. Clinton
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Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes…
— Kathleen Brown
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I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that…
— Louis XVI of France
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Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
— Madame Roland
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with…
— Thomas Jefferson
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War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly…
— Cindy Sheehan
Who Wrote These Crimes Quotes
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