Quotes About Crimes

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

efficiently the system worked. A courthouse is a factory, sorting violence into a taxonomy of crimes, processing

Why would science ever recognize God that would make [them] accountable for their crimes against [him].

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

While internees had "first accepted with philosophical understanding the decision of their government," Ickes told Roosevelt that these imprisoned Americans, charged with no crimes, were now bitter. "I do not think that we can disregard the unnecessary creation of a hostile group right in our own territory." As