A Quote by Louis Kronenberger

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Louis Kronenberger

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Committed Despite How Important Liberty Like Many Name Temperament

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Louis Kronenberger
American - Novelist
December 9, 1904 - April 30, 1980

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

Madame Roland

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

C.P. Snow

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.

Carl Sagan

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

Pete Domenici

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

George Wald

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

Carlos Fuentes

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Eugene Ionesco

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Emma Goldman

I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

Joseph Smith, Jr.

When you think of it, you know, probably the biggest victim of our epoch is the American people because of all the crimes committed in its name.

Mikis Theodorakis

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Paul Tillich

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.