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Letter "C" » crimes
«Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!»
«Only the winners decide what were war crimes.»
«Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.»
«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.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
appeared, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, crimes, Crime and Punishment, deterrence, emergence, for the first time, initial, initialed, initials, on the contrary, possessed, reappearance, specific, the commission
«Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity»
«Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.»
«Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice»
«Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
crimes, imperfections, unwilling, weaknesses
«One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, committed, community, crime, crimes, Crime and Punishment, employment, habitual, infinitely, inflicted, not absolutely, occasional, occurrence, occurrences, punishment, punishments, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, wicked
«Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
armed, arms, assailant, assaulted, assaults, attacked, carrying, commit, confidence man, crimes, determined, disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, encourage, forbid, homicide, homicides, inclined, inclines, inclining, Laws, prevent, serve, unarmed
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