#crime

Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ↗

— Gary Wills

#decide #only #war #were #winners

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#allow #because #believed #cannot #crime

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

— Polly Toynbee

#crimes #given #jails #longer #more

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#disasters #example #falling #labour #only

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#country #creature #crime #fury #hour

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. ↗

— Stand Watie

#bad #blunder #crime #get #great

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#community #crime #end #failure #in the end

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#becomes #capital #capital punishment #crime #deserving

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#crimes #humanity #justice #limitations #must

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#build #crimes #defence #history #information