Action Quote by Daniel Defoe

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

— George Farquhar

There must be serious consequences for criminal behavior, but when individuals demonstrate a changed lifestyle and a commitment to abandoning the ways of their…

— Mike Parson

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

— Anonymous

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

— Jalal Talabani

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

— Plutarch

“Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it.”

— Aristotle

“People are "punished" or "rewarded" not for what they have done but for what they have become, and what we intentionally do is what…

— David R. Loy

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

— Edward Coke

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

— B. F. Skinner

The value of actions lies in their timing.

— Laozi

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in…

— Henri Rousseau