#crimes

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed against the body, but against the freedom of the consciousness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#consciousness #crimes #freedom #mind #freedom

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. ↗

— Mark Twain

#intelligence

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#commit #crimes #did #during #germany

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#against #before #bush #bush administration #come

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. ↗

— Robert Trout

#british #british empire #china #crimes #destruction

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. ↗

— Simone Weil

#destruction #greatest #past #perhaps

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

— Edward Gibbon

#follies #history #little #mankind #misfortunes

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

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 NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#capacity #crimes #extent #forces #nato