"History is little more than the register of……" — Edward Gibbon
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
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Edward Gibbon
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95 Quotes by Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon has 95 quotes on this site.
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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More Crimes Quotes
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one of 611 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of…
— George W. Bush
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
— Samuel Butler
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that…
— Lord Byron
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You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you…
— David Cameron
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Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.
— Cher
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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in…
— Lydia M. Child
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
— Warren Christopher
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