Crimes Quotes
611 Crimes quotes by 471 unique authors
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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)
— Lord Byron
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In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is…
— P D Ouspensky
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How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal;…
— Walter E. Williams
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Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.
— George R. R. Martin
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...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
— Paul Tillich
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Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is…
— Kurt Cobain
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I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search the train station…
— David Sedaris
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... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime…
— Michelle Alexander
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If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.
— Terry Pratchett
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Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in…
— Margaret Atwood
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No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have…
— James A. Baldwin
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There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and…
— Cassandra Clare
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Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I must be here…
— William Shakespeare
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at…
— Veronica Roth
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and…
— Emma Goldman
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
— Tacitus
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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept…
— Mark Twain
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter...…
— Baron d'Holbach
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The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as unsafe…
— David Hume
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There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they…
— James A. Baldwin
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High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even…
— Rodney Stark
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The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
— Lysander Spooner
Who Wrote These Crimes Quotes
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