Crimes Quotes

611 Crimes quotes by 471 unique authors

white criminals commit the biggest crimes.a brother might rob a bank. a white man will rob a pension fund. the brother is going to get… — Wanda Sykes
I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had… — Margaret Atwood
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. — Paulo Coelho
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance… — Hakim Bey
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. — Confucius
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your… — Azar Nafisi
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .… — Thomas Jefferson
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes,"… — Lord Byron
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you… — Diana Gabaldon
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders… — Banksy
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. — Noam Chomsky
I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or… — Lorraine Hansberry
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen… — Amy Goodman
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the… — Bernhard Schlink
Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe… — Amin Maalouf
Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be… — Andrew Vachss
Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger,… — Lois McMaster Bujold
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the… — Noam Chomsky
As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free. — William Shakespeare
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were… — Charles Dickens
I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning,… — Anna Akhmatova

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