Offender Quotes
48 quotes by 46 authors
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He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the…
— Carly Simon
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The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts,…
— Marlene Dietrich
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But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.
— Oswald Chambers
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You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened.…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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How come everybody cheers when chicks flash their T&A, but when I pull out my D&Bs, i'm a registered sex offender.
— Daniel Tosh
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
— Alexander Pope
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For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
— Howard Staunton
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Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.
— Gary Smalley
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I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.
— Rick Nielsen
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The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than…
— John Dryden
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Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
— Juvenal
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It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice,…
— Emma Goldman
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There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended,…
— Karl Marx
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
— Blaise Pascal
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If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is…
— Miroslav Volf
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In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old…
— Kevin Barry
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Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life,…
— Rick Warren
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So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to…
— Lauren Beukes
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There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Who Wrote These Offender Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 48 Offender Quotes, led by these top contributors: