Offence Quotes

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Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. — Swami Vivekananda
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of… — Joseph Story
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats… — Aristotle
"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual-… — Aldous Huxley
I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is childâ€™s… — Bhagat Singh
The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit. — Ann Widdecombe
The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things… — Sengcan
Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances. — Linus Torvalds
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences. — Alan Paton
...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences. — William J. Clinton
Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. — Moliere
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn,… — Georges Clemenceau
Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many. — Publilius Syrus
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep… — Joseph Story
When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church… — Ambrose
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. — Jonathan Swift
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence. — Moliere
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. — Ovid

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