Crimes Quotes
611 Crimes quotes by 471 unique authors
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Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody.…
— Ron Paul
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Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of…
— Chris Hedges
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The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but 80%…
— Harry Belafonte
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What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War crimes are crimes…
— Benjamin B. Ferencz
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
— Oscar Wilde
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Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.
— Saddam Hussein
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[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes.
— Avis Bohlen
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The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.
— Garry Robbins
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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…
— Ida B. Wells
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There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.
— Donella Meadows
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That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human…
— Michael Ondaatje
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...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
— Samuel Johnson
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The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
— Seneca the Younger
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Responsibility prevents crimes.
— Edmund Burke
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the…
— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
— Clarence Darrow
Who Wrote These Crimes Quotes
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