Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.
The intellectual world is deeply conformist. . . We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.
When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg.
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.
President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.
most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.
One of the great crimes of the BloombergKlein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have nothing to say about what their needs and aspirations are for themselves and for their children.
I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
