#crimes

It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth. ↗

— David Cecil

#evil #faith #fanaticism #fundamentalism #good-intentions

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#become #children #commit #crime #crimes

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

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

— John Ashcroft

#commit #crimes #matter #ministers #people

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#crimes #crown #great #guilty #his

I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitely banned. ↗

— Francois Bozize

#blood #candidates #cases #crimes #definitely

Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ↗

— Gary Wills

#decide #only #war #were #winners

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes. ↗

— George Will

#imprisoned #more #offenses #property #than

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#attacks #carry #crimes #inside #israel

...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art. ↗

— Frank Lentricchia

#crimes #terror #art