#crime

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#crimes #injuries #justice #passion #revenge

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#crimes #guilt #me #nonexistent #unacceptable

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effective #hands #instrument #last #least

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

#consequence #crimes #her #means #most

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#afford #against #been #called #cannot

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#crimes #economic #government #international #met

He has committed the crime who profits by it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#crime #profits #who

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#crimes #different #i #investigated #kinds

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#criminals #father #gangs #had #hardened