“ Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. ”
- Juvenal- Copy
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“ It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. ”
- Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan- Copy
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“ There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president. ”
- Donella Meadows- Copy
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“ History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
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“ It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ I do not believe the framers of the Constitution would have considered this particular situation high crimes and misdemeanors. ”
- Paul Newman- Copy
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“ There is no serious question that perjury and obstruction of justice are high crimes and misdemeanors. ”
- Bill Frist- Copy
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“ We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence. ”
- Pete Domenici- Copy
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“ I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone i could think of. ”
- Paul Reubens- Copy
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“ People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists. ”
- John Ashcroft- Copy
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“ Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty. ”
- George Jackson- Copy
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“ He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination — and taxes.". ”
- H. E. Martz- Copy
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“ Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people. ”
- Tom Cruise- Copy
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“ The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. ”
- Randal Keith Milholland- Copy
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“ Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ People think of the Golden Rule as something mild and innocuous, like a baby lamb. But when they suffer an infringement of it, they think they've been mauled by a panther. ”
- Francis Wren- Copy
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“ Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ”
- William Pitt- Copy
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“ By their very nature, these kinds of crimes attack the integrity of the judicial system,... Indeed, that's why they're crimes. To argue that in certain instances these crimes mean little is to say our judicial system means little. I reject that notion. ”
- Henry Hyde- Copy
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“ We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. ”
- George Wald- Copy
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“ It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side… ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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