#crimes

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#crimes #fatal #first #further #had

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#against #because #capital #capital punishment #children

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#crimes #done #even #films #i

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#follies #history #little #mankind #misfortunes

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#any #books #crime #crimes #does

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#bring #commit #conviction #crimes #criminal

A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#life #strength-and-courage #war-crimes #weakness #courage

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right. ↗

— Cher

#believe #crimes #doing #hate #people

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#crimes #cure #divine #everywhere #humanity

Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#charged #charges #clients #crimes #human