Commit Quote by Marie Howe

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

— Yoshida Kenko

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

— Oscar Wilde

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

— Daniel O'Connell

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

— Geoffrey Gray

I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor…

— Leonid Brezhnev

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If…

— Louis D. Brandeis

But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover…

— John Trumbull

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -…

— Philip K. Dick

“Paulinus, everyone knows. Say the word, and I'll run the bitch over with my chariot”

— Kate Quinn

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

— Dolly Parton