Crime Quote by George Washington

“People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.”

— Bethany McLean

“Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.”

— Mark Bowden

“It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing.”

— Michael Foucault

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

— Adam Smith

“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every injury which…

— Thomas Paine

“It was a strange sight, and perhaps the most disgraceful exhibition ever made by any President; but, as no evil is entirely unmixed, good…

— Frederick Douglass

“...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too…

— Primo Levi

“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some…

— Jim Butcher

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might…

— Thomas Moore

“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can’t be punished for being good. One can’t be penalized for ability.”

— Ayn Rand

“No form of punishment will be inflicted,”

— Suzanne Collins

“this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever…

— James Baldwin