#crimes

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. ↗

— George Farquhar

#like #own #rewards #their #virtues

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#been #committed #crimes #more #name

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#clichés #crimes #double-standards #fidelity #gender

...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art. ↗

— Frank Lentricchia

#crimes #terror #art

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#concern #court #crimes #criminal #different

An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#american citizens #averaging #citizens #crimes #day

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#committed #crimes #free #horrific #miles

So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you’d better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#criminal #criminals #good-and-evil #heroism #hypocrisy

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

#history #indeed #misfortunes #more #nothing

And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel. ↗

— David Duke

#crimes #deny #holocaust #israel #palestinians