Crimes Quotes

611 Crimes quotes by 471 unique authors

If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place… — John Dos Passos
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. — Jean Genet
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the… — Germaine Greer
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads… — Ann Coulter
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people. — Tom Cruise
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on… — Alan Dershowitz
Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity… — Ani DiFranco
In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that… — Junot Diaz
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Successful crimes alone are justified. — John Dryden
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they… — Andrea Dworkin
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the… — Clint Eastwood
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. — Desiderius Erasmus
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers. — Harvey Fierstein
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. — Augustus Hare
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the… — Lauryn Hill
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty. — George Jackson
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of… — Bianca Jagger
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. — Samuel Johnson
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as… — Hugh Leonard
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. — James Russell Lowell
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants… — Susana Martinez

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