Crimes Quotes

611 Crimes quotes by 471 unique authors

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. — Albert Camus
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you… — Benjamin Franklin
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things… — Abraham Lincoln
If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard… — Carter G. Woodson
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when… — Bertolt Brecht
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world… — John Adams
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong. — Carter G. Woodson
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience… — Carrie P Snow
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school,… — Katherine Applegate
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent… — Philip Yancey
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to… — Albert Camus
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. — Hannah Arendt
there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human… — Orson Scott Card
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle. — Azar Nafisi
Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity… — Og Mandino
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love. — William S. Burroughs
Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission — Eugene Ionesco
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A… — Brent Weeks
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous… — Gregory Maguire
Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets,… — Marilyn Manson
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the… — Judith Lewis Herman
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed… — James A. Baldwin
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller

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