Quotes 41 till 55 of 55.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
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We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues.
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
Source: Public Affairs -
Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]
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While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
Source: The Audacity of Hope (2006) -
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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