Quotation Explorer - 'Crimes'

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. - Voltaire
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. - Sir Thomas More
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. - Paul Eldridge
Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. - William Shakespeare
The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, with reverential Awe,At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I - Alexander Pope
Shocking, sad, revealing, and deeply researched, this true account of the life and crimes of serial killer Aileen Wuornos will fascinate true-crime fans. - John E. Douglas
O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! - Madame Roland
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. - Benjamin Franklin
Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded. - Imran Khan
There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws. - Blaise Pascal
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon
How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes? - M.F. Moonzajer
In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished. - Emily Thorne
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. - David Sarnoff
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. - Confucius
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. - Randy K. Milholland
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done. - John Brown
Human on human crimes should never be forgotten, or dismissed by time. We are all related here and are linked by spirit. - Gayle Wray
Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares. - Miri Yū
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. - Albert Camus
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace! - Widad Akreyi
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy. - Imran Khan
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics. - Vladimir Odoevsky
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father. - Jean de La Bruyère
The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. - C.P. Snow
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Joseph Brodsky
Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions? - Robert Desnos
The Nazis destroyed the independence of the press by passing series of draconian laws and it seems we are exactly imitating the same with the freedom of the internet by passing Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill. - Arzak Khan
A good Policeman/woman looks for crimes. A bad policeman/woman looks for opportunity. - Richard Diaz
Love is beautiful, yet the worst of crimes are committed in the name of love. So when someone claims to love you, you should question their intent. - Gugu Mona
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
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. - Agatha Christie
The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done. - Léon Bloy
Start Now, close your eyes for few minutes and then open them... so far it's going great... Now just think your three favourite things which you enjoy watching, like for example I like True Crimes, True Stories and so far Suspense. - Deyth Banger
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. - Arthur Conan Doyle
We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. - George Orwell
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon
When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others. - Ellen J. Barrier
Love Sex and CrimeNearly 100 Crimes are committed in the name of Love and only one is committed in the name of Sex. - honeya
Bitterness*Broken men Walk away from broken sonsWho stab them in the gutIn angerAnd bitternessFor crimes they are both not guilty ofLife is a bitch sometimes-------------------------2014© 16/5/2014The Poetic Assassin - rassool jibraeel snyman
All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness. - A.S. Neill
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