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Quotes About Crimes

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
~ Lysander Spooner
During the Bosnian conflict, an international tribunal was established to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. I was a firm advocate of the tribunal because only through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
So easie still it proves in Factious Times, With publick Zeal to cancel private Crimes: How safe is Treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the Peoples Will: Where Crouds can wink; and no offence be known, Since in anothers guilt they find their own.
~ John Dryden
I don't want to, Bannick. I've lived in your miserable life for so long and I never dreamed I would one day be able to have a chat like this and tell you what a miserable scumbag I think you are. You're a coward. Your crimes took no courage.
~ John Grisham
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
~ Sara Paretsky
Everyone knows they all belong to the Liberation Militia and all they do is cause trouble and commit crimes and stuff like that …
~ Malorie Blackman
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
~ Douglas Hurd
At this time, thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have religious exemptions for civil claims of medical neglect, fifteen states for criminal misdemeanors, and seventeen states for felonious medical neglect.112 To be clear, these exemptions are not benign grants of religious liberty with no victims. They mean that religious parents and caretakers may not be charged with the crimes specified when they withheld readily available medical treatment from their child.
~ Unknown
Trees fall on houses and he has to be there, nature committing crimes against property.
~ Unknown
Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.
~ Thom Hartmann
Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.
~ Bill Maher
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The whole horrific experience taught me that it is evil for a man to die in payment for another's sins. A blood sacrifice by the innocent to atone for the crimes of the guilty is unjust to both.
~ Unknown
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
~ Marquis de Sade
Deb, justice is every man's fight. To right a terrible wrong and make evil men pay for their crimes is part of why I'm going, but there's more. It's not just about punishing the men who attacked your wagon train. These men are dangerous. They'll hurt more folks if they aren't stopped.
~ Mary Connealy
I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money.
~ Mary Renault
National sovereignty is not a license to commit crimes against humanity or genocide. The Rohingya and all of Myanmar's people, in fact the entire world, is looking at you to take action.
~ Unknown
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.
~ Max Nordau
Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In most towns, the police do not rely on an old woman, two kids, and a sleepy dog to solve crimes
~ Michael Buckley
By the time Gorbachev came to power, alcoholism had reached epidemic proportions. Official studies showed that 70 percent of all crimes were related to alcohol. Drink was blamed for widespread absenteeism at work, a sharp increase in the divorce rate, and a dramatic drop in male life expectancy.
~ Michael Dobbs
Many serial killers try to plead dissociative personality disorder, which is a new name for multiple personality disorder, in court. But they all fail dismally in this desperate attempt to avoid responsibility for their crimes.
~ Unknown
Sexual crimes are very visual. Sadists want to see the pain they are inflicting upon their victim.
~ Unknown