Crimes Quotes
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While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.
Benjamin Wittes
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Collective crimes incriminate no one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Shamelessly supporting and whitewashing terrible crimes against humanity.
Chris Smith
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I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Seneca the Younger
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
Baruch Spinoza
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There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.
Jimmy Carter
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A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Seneca the Younger
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.
Bruce Willis
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African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of similar crimes. Behind these statistics are heart-wrenching stories of lives cut short and families ripped apart.
Hillary Clinton
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I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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For a while longer you may be able to carry on with your plundering and murderous crimes, but you will not escape your ultimate fate. We shall exhaust and then destroy you in a difficult and prolonged battle. When one of us falls, there are tens of others who will rise. Our death is no ordinary death and our life no ordinary life.
Ashraf Dehghani
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Lots of people commit crimes and don't get arrested. That's not the measure. But if you're going to be the president of the United States, we're reasonably going to put you under a microscope. And Donald Trump's tax behavior is absolutely important to understanding, is he qualified, is he morally fit, is he capable, is he trustworthy to have everything from the powers of federal law enforcement to the nuclear codes?
Hillary Clinton
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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.
Charles Dickens
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Rotten apples stay spoiled, Nedwin said. Copernum and his allies will hang themselves with future crimes.
Brandon Mull
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Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.
Alex Pacheco
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Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.
Haskell Wexler
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The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.
Ahmed Yassin
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Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission
Eugene Ionesco