Crimes Quotes

611 Crimes quotes by 471 unique authors

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 â€œcruelty. — 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 categoryâ€”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
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one… — Albert Camus
Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of… — Wole Soyinka
Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are the people we know. Enemies are the Other. You… — Ilona Andrews
Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.… — Marquis de Sade

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