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In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
View quotes by Geoffrey Fisher

Such crimes has superstition caused.
View quotes by Lucretius

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
View quotes by George Farquhar

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
View quotes by Emma Goldman

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

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
View quotes by James Gates Percival

Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
View quotes by Hannah More

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood (on the day of his execution, 1859)
View quotes by John Brown

Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
View quotes by Daniel Defoe

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.
View quotes by Casey Stengel

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

View quotes by Lord Byron

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 our virtues.
View quotes by Honore De Balzac

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
View quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
View quotes by Mme Roland

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
View quotes by Robert Trout

The response to these inhumane crimes wherever they take place - be it London, New York, Moscow or other countries - should be absolute condemnation.

All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.
[on the London terrorist attack, 7th July 2005]
View quotes by Vladimir Putin



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