Quotes with crimes

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  • Bill Bennett It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Epictetus Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Cardinal de Retz Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Oscar Wilde One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ouida Petty laws breed great crimes.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Emma Goldman Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jean Baptiste Racine Small crimes always precedes great ones.
    Jean Baptiste Racine
    French playwright (1639 - 1699)
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  • Seneca Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Dryden Successful crimes alone are justified.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Lydia Maria Child The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
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  • Lydia M. Child The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word ''Love.'' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Salman Rushdie The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Lady Blessington The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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