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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action. — Clarence Darrow

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. — Jean De La Bruyere

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes, — Navi Pillay

Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals? — George Gordon Byron

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. — Augustus Hare

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. — Liu Xiaobo

I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair) — George Gordon Byron

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents — Edward Gibbon

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. — Colin Wilson

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them. — Robert Payne

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had. — John Waters

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face. — Bob Dylan

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny The Elder

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law. — Baron De Montesquieu

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. — Seneca The Younger

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. — Oscar Wilde

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

As crimes pile up, they become invisible. — Bertolt Brecht

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. — Melissa Bean

Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime. — Malcolm Gladwell

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before. — Jean Racine

We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

History has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines. — Paul Tillich

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. — Harold Pinter

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die? — Ian McEwan

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you. — Sinead O'Conner

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart — Jane Austen

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment. — George R R Martin

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching. — Sachin Tendulkar

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems. — Sergei Lavrov

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes? — Albert Einstein

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. — Hannah More

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. — Paulo Coelho

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama. — Ted Cruz

Back to these young criminals - They probably were not spanked as babies; they certainly were not flogged for their crimes. — Robert A. Heinlein

There are far more a worst crimes than burning books ... Not reading them. — Joseph Brodsky

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. — Denise Mina

Although crimes may win an empire, they do not win glory. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Humans time and again demonstrated they were capable of perpetrating crimes as vile and gruesome as any vampire. — Rebeka Harrington

Our love like this, grown while we committed crimes - it's going to destroy us. — Kristin Halbrook

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. — Lysander Spooner

You cannot criticize Israel in this country (USA) and survive — Helen Thomas

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. — Hannah Arendt

Government studies show that there are still more than two million race-based housing discrimination crimes every year.8 — Paula Harris

It is no longer enough simply to solve crimes: We modern private detectives must also be able to come up with catchy names for our cases. — Alan Bradley

is not a manifesto for action, a list of crimes to be avenged, a litany of positions to be reversed or a collection of rights to be wronged. — Sidin Vadukut

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. — Robert Breault

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee

There was a midsummer restlessness abroad - early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws. — Tacitus

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. — Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

Little crimes like mine didn't matter anymore. Little deaths like yours didn't make a sound. — Philip Beard

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed. — Rajneesh

The concept of war crimes is an American invention. — George Wald

I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money. — Mary Renault

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain

Do you hope you can expiate the crimes of the past by suffering in the present? — J.M. Coetzee

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes. — Jose Mujica

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged. — Richard Dawkins

The strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
— William S. Burroughs

Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes. — Pope Francis

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. — Simon Wiesenthal

Successful crimes alone are justified. — John Dryden

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon — Simon Sebag Montefiore

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime. — Sarah Brady

I think that what people who've committed crimes need isn't punishment, but rather the knowledge of the pain of being forgiven. — Inio Asano

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals — John Vanbrugh

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes. — Larry McMurtry

It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes. — Noam Chomsky

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes. — Norm MacDonald

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon

Xang Xu, the name read beneath his picture. Wanted for computer fraud and various other cyber crimes. By the freaking FBI and god — Kaylea Cross

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself. — Joe Biden

There are no uncriminal crimes. — Ozzy Osbourne

He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors. — Terry Pratchett

But, as so often happens, crimes committed with extraordinary boldness are more likely to succeed than any others. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge. — Jurgen Habermas

Round up and deport two million aliens who committed crimes. — John McCain

I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority. — Bob Casey Jr.

Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded. — Imran Khan

all major German crimes took place in areas where state institutions had been destroyed, dismantled, or seriously compromised. — Timothy Snyder

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply. — George W. Bush

Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly. — Jack London

War is a crime which involves all other crimes. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists. — John Ashcroft

I take comfort in knowing that the inevitable passage of time will erase my crimes from history. — Dennis B. Boyer

A madman in particular has always a very strong reason for the crimes he commits. — Agatha Christie

I won't have any paste-related crimes laid on my head. — Veronica Wolff

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. — George Bernard Shaw

All sins may be forgiven, but crimes must still be punished. — George R R Martin

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal. — Franz Grillparzer

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed. — Ken Starr