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Quotes About Perpetrated

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
~ Alfred Adler
white-collar and corporate/industrial crime—perpetrated mostly by whites—causes more personal injury, death, and property loss than does all street crime combined, even on a per capita basis.)
~ Richard Delgado
That every act of political violence should nowadays be attributed to Anarchists is not at all surprising. Yet it is a fact known to almost everyone familiar with the Anarchist movement that a great number of acts, for which Anarchists had to suffer, either originated with the capitalist press or were instigated, if not directly perpetrated, by the police.
~ Emma Goldman
With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.
~ James Inhofe
Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the aim of one cause or another.
~ Libba Bray
Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.
~ Jagmeet Singh
what still more shocking outrages were perpetrated upon his mind! with all his noble powers and sublime aspirations, how like a brute was he treated, even by those professing to have the same mind in them that was in Christ Jesus! to what dreadful liabilities was he continually subjected!
~ Frederick Douglass
In the name of the cross, more injustice has been perpetrated than for any other single cause or emblem or philosophy or creed on Earth.
~ Anne Rice
I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
~ Gary Coleman
evil, in fact, is perpetrated by people who are mostly ordinary and who respond to their circumstances, including provocation by the victim, in ways that they feel are reasonable and just.
~ Steven Pinker
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
~ Juvenal
Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet. (Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)
~ Frederic Milton Thrasher
I denounce Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric, and he knows exactly what he is doing.
~ Donna Brazile
In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
This insistence on unity was the source of one of the most potent myths of the postwar period – the idea that the responsibility for all the evils of the war rested exclusively with the Germans. If it was only 'they' who had perpetrated atrocities upon 'us', then the rest of Europe was released from all accountability for the injustices it had perpetrated upon itself.
~ Keith Lowe
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
~ H. L. Mencken
These tracts are inherently unradical and fail to critique the systematic bigotry that has fueled this counteraggression for the past two horrible days. This cravenly jingoistic display of yours is an insufficient response to the injustice currently being perpetrated on this very street.
~ James Ellroy
The punishment for being a Jew in the Reich crossed the line into barbarism. They were being hunted down like wild animals. What made it so sickening was that it wasn't perpetrated by a bunch of ignorant half-naked savages, but the citizens of a nation renowned for its culture and intelligence that had produced men like Goethe and Beethoven.
~ Charles Belfoure
Josephus also, who gives us a minute account of the atrocities perpetrated by Herod up to even the very last moment of his life, does not say a single word about this unheard-of crime, which must have been so notorious. Surely he must have known of it, and must have mentioned it, had it ever been committed.
~ Thomas William Doane
the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
~ Hannah Arendt
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
~ Iain Pears
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.
~ Cory Booker
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
~ Rob Walton
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero