A Quote by Heloise

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

Heloise

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Crime Deed Intention Makes

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Heloise
French - Writer
1101 - May 16, 1164

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

Abdullah ibn Mubarak

The intention makes the crime.

Aristotle

The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean.

Paul Greengrass

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

Roger Nash Baldwin

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

John Burroughs

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

Joanne Greenberg

Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

Soman Chainani

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

Pope Gregory I

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

Juvenal

I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

Susan B. Anthony

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Henry David Thoreau

There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

Al-Ghazali

It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.