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«There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.»
«There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
billboard, billboards, crimes, goofball, gun, New York, numbers, related, shoot, square, the Billboard, The New York Times, York
«The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Crime,
Self-esteem,
Self-interest
| Keywords:
arise, crimes, indulgence, indulgences, sensibilities, sensibility
«The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
committed, cover, covered up, cover for, cover up, crimes, cruel, crueler, equally, heinous, history, motives, noble, On the Cover, record, religion, The Records, under
«The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| About:
Crime
| Keywords:
associate, Commit Suicide, crimes, Great Mother, murder, species, suicide, swear, vex, vexes, vexing
«The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| Keywords:
conservative, crimes, culture, notions, sacred, seeks, uncertainty
«The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, crimes, ghosts, haunt, malefactor, malefactors, murdered
«Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
appetite, beyond control, Beyond Reason, bounds, crimes, in that, legislation, prohibition, prohibitions
«Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.»
«The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.»
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