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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson
Justice
Revenge
Passion
Crimes
Vengeance
Act
Injuries
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.
Milton Friedman
Government
Property
Three
Nation
Military
Defense
Crimes
Citizens
Individuals
Primary
Between
Protect
Provide
Contracts
Against
Themselves
Enforce
Should
Functions
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
Me
Guidance
Innocent
Crime
Society
Crimes
Punishment
Would
Would-Be
Adult
Most
Because
Children
Against
Capital
Capital Punishment
Reason
Need
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel
You
Older
Crimes
Virtues
Possessed
Out
Blamed
Never
Itself
Begin
Get
Committed
Younger
Credit
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
Justice
Innocent
Too Much
Mercy
First
Too
Crimes
Further
Resulted
Had
Put
Were
Been
Often
Which
Victims
Much
Who
Second
Fatal
Need
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
Federica Mogherini
Justice
Peace
Suffering
Revenge
Hatred
Crimes
Elusive
Unable
Unpunished
More
Remains
Leading
Since
Most
Obtain
Without
Redress
Go
Goal
Impunity
Victims
Acts
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
Government
Law
Conviction
Crimes
Criminal
Criminal Law
Secure
Administration
Would
Retribution
Terrible
Private
End
Commit
May
Order
Justifies
Declare
Means
Bring
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Change
Cowardly
Crimes
Air
Most
Executioner
Perjury
Common
Meanest
Breathe
Axe
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
Voltaire
Religion
Society
Settled
Crimes
Secret
Laws
Cover
Covers
Wherever
Manifest
Necessary
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.
White
Society
Crimes
Negroes
Born
Greater
Committed
Deplorable
Derivative
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin
Freedom
Justice
Struggle
Women
Men
Important
Crimes
Our
Support
Cry
Learn
Understand
Stop
Want
Against
Us
Should
Who
Violence
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac
Love
Women
Men
Nothing
Crimes
Our
Virtues
Everything
Give
Forgive
Us
Even
Credit
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
Lysander Spooner
Happiness
Property
Man
Own
Others
Crimes
Unlike
Simply
Toward
Imply
Makes
His
Malice
Errors
After
Vices
Which
Persons
Interference
Search
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
George Jackson
Passion
Men
Oppressor
Few
Crimes
Guilty
Economic
Feel
Very
Imprisoned
Few Men
Against
Really
Even
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
Ida B. Wells
Women
Crime
Men
White
Crimes
More
Through
His
Than
Commission
Against
Race
Far
Suffered
Ever
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
Julius Caesar
Sometimes
Prosperity
Men
Long
Minded
Crimes
Complete
Punish
Immortal
More
Make
Were
Reverse
Gods
Wont
Impunity
Order
Them
Might
Grant
Fortune
Suffer
Whose
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
Face
Difficult
Crimes
Rule
Bizarre
More
Mysterious
Puzzling
Most
Identify
Said
Proves
Just
Which
Commonplace
Holmes
Really
Your
Less
Thing
In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.
Frank Abagnale
Good
Man
People
Old
Looking
Gone
Crimes
Hundreds
Those
Would
Would-Be
Dressed
Con
Spoken
Good-Looking
Days
Well
Because
Real
Suave
Doing
Committing
Old Days
Them
Themselves
Miles
Away
Necessary
Presented
The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.
Frank Abagnale
You
Wonderful
Internet
Crimes
Stay
Opens
Wonderful Thing
Door
Many
Thing
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
George W. Bush
Government
Innocent
Crimes
Guilty
Complicit
Supports
Protects
Equally
Terrorist
Terrorists
Any
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Jean de la Bruyere
Men
Crimes
Weaknesses
Vanity
Than
Blush
Less
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
Lysander Spooner
Crimes
Enslave
Destroy
Carried
Plunder
Greatest
Governments
Mankind
Wars
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau
Life
Good
Property
Justice
Respect
Equality
Law
Word
Before
Crimes
Punishment
Citizens
Civilization
Principles
Built
Ultimate
Human
Against
Persons
Human Life
Good Citizens
Number
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
Oprah Winfrey
Myself
People
Try
Crimes
Charged
About
Know
Opinions
Anything
Who
Keep
Basically
I am tired of seeing real criminals, with lots of victims being ignored, while traditional law enforcement is busy going after perpetrators of victimless crimes such as those involved in the Silk Road Marketplace.
Roger Ver
Tired
Law
Being Ignored
Busy
Crimes
Criminals
Marketplace
Those
Seeing
Law Enforcement
Silk
Road
Involved
Am
Real
Traditional
Lots
Going
Being
After
While
Victims
Enforcement
Ignored
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Simone Weil
Destruction
Past
Crimes
Perhaps
Greatest
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