Top 96 Quotes About Offenses
#1. Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
George Will
#2. For when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#3. YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES - THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.
John Bevere
#4. The United States now imprisons more people16 for drug offenses than Western European nations imprison for all crimes combined. No human society has ever before imprisoned this high a proportion of its population.
Johann Hari
#5. Between the time of Jesus and the 20th century, 19 million people were executed for trivial offenses.68
Steven Pinker
#6. I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.
Ken Starr
#7. The CFL made me a more versatile QB because of all the things you had to do once you got on the field. And if I wasn't as versatile as I was, I wouldn't have been as successful in all the different offenses that I was in, in the NFL.
Warren Moon
#8. Petty theft, murder, forgery, arson, and the abduction of women were all capital offenses, so the death penalty for heresy was neither unusual nor extreme.50
Karen Armstrong
#9. It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.
Hugh Blair
#10. In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.
George Ryan
#11. Shakespeare himself spoke of Heaven using wars as a punishment for perversities, lusts and passive barbarianism: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to calm these vile offenses, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Fulton J. Sheen
#12. The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.
William S. Burroughs
#13. George W. Bush committed impeachable offenses in waging war in Iraq.
Stan Goff
#14. We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
Carl Crawford
#15. It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
Horace
#16. They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.
Preston Brooks
#17. in wildernesses where weather and gravity create dire consequences for the smallest of offenses, it only takes a few outlaws to bring mayhem and disaster.
Michael Kodas
#18. How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
Joseph Wambaugh
#20. Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.
Douglas Rushkoff
#21. Many of the sisters were Black and poor and from D.C., where every crime is a violation of a federal statute. They were beautiful sisters, serving outrageous sentences for minor offenses.
Assata Shakur
#22. You don't scare me," he added.
"Oh, but I should."
"I'll never be scared by a girl."
"Oh so now you're not only a complete jerk, but your sexist too. Real nice, Radder."
"Thank you," he said, "your offenses mean nothing.
Ellie A. Gray
#23. There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
Aristotle.
#24. Never judge badly a rage of a very patient heart who had let go many repetitive offenses from insufferable bastards.
Angelica Hopes
#25. Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million people, a nearly 300% increase. We now lock up one out of every hundred adults, far more than any other country.
Piper Kerman
#26. Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.
Bauvard
#27. It is very easy to be spiritual inside a religious group but true faith is practiced when you love the ignorant and the atheists, despite their ridicule and offenses, and without the need to convert them to your beliefs.
Robin Sacredfire
#28. Everybody has a role on the team, and some have a role as a scout team player. They have to emulate the offenses that we are going to face. Those players still have to go through the out-of-season work and they work hard.
Barry Alvarez
#30. When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses.
David D. Burns
#32. A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
Baal Shem Tov
#33. How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
Moliere
#34. After all, a society with such an enlightened tolerance of corruption and savagery needed to bear down hard on minor offenses to convince itself that it still had standards.
Dean Koontz
#35. I believe that forgiveness is a processes. You might be able to release some offenses right away, but some offenses hurt deeper. You have to choose to let go and let God.
Anna M. Aquino
#36. If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
Mick Jagger
#37. Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
Bob Ney
#38. Little liberties are great offenses.
Aesop
#39. The sight of a cross on fire should be unsettling to any true Christian. To a Negro it is worse. A unique kind of fear enters your mind, one perfected by the South: that you could die for the most harmless of offenses. You could die just for the crime of living.
Rashad Harrison
#40. We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct.
John Shadegg
#41. The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
John Vianney
#42. Many were the offenses to be undone, the wrongs to be rectified, the grievances to be redressed, the abuses to be corrected and the debts to be satisfied.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#43. For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.
Dennis R. Miller
#44. It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...
Spencer W. Kimball
#45. The growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.
Julia Lathrop
#46. 10 He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our offenses.
Anonymous
#47. We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide.
David Mitchell
#48. Forgiveness: You cannot afford to withhold forgiveness. Nothing will destroy your life more surely, for there is a great hidden grief in the denial of forgiveness. Your heart is so heavy from what you have not forgiven that you bear the offenses of another as if they were your own.
Glenda Green
#49. Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#50. Some offenses will be more challenging than those for which we've been trained. This extra strain may cause
John Bevere
#51. Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, "the Duchess," who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook and avenged herself accordingly. Today I like my first ladies with a little bite. I
Gillian Flynn
#53. Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator
Frank Delaney
#54. Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain offenses) or restores it (if the deprivation did not conform to due process).
Thomas Szasz
#56. And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.
Sarah Dessen
#57. In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
#58. That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground
or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.
Shirley Hazzard
#59. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate. The New Jim Crow was born.
Michelle Alexander
#60. Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds ...
Leigh Hunt
#61. Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Abraham Lincoln
#62. May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.
Beth Moore
#63. Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Anthony De Mello
#64. You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged in the articles of impeachment do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
Charles Ruff
#65. Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes. Matthew 18:7
Beth Moore
#66. They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's glory.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#67. People of color are actually no more likely to be guilty of drug crimes and many other offenses than whites.
Michelle Alexander
#68. And for more egregious offenses, you need to get rid of the knave, quickly. Think
Eric Schmidt
#69. What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.
Bartolome De Las Casas
#70. For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
Mel Carnahan
#71. The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.
Robert Luskin
#73. To be court-martialed - for any reason - is eight times as bad for an officer as for an enlisted man. Offenses which will get privates kicked out (maybe with lashes, possibly without) rate death in an officer. Better never to have been born!
Robert A. Heinlein
#74. Correction is not displaying your anger at their offenses; it is rather reminding them that their sinful behavior offends God.
Tedd Tripp
#75. Ten years from now I think people are going to look back and say Willis Reed pulled a Curt Schilling ... Willis Reed scored four points. Curt Schilling went seven innings against one of the best offenses of recent memory. No offense to Willis Reed.
Theo Epstein
#76. The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.
Asa Hutchinson
#77. I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#78. Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton
#79. In the federal system alone there were 90,000 prisoners locked up for drug offenses, compared with about 40,000 for violent crimes. A federal prisoner costs at least $30,000 a year to incarcerate, and females actually cost more.
Piper Kerman
#80. What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
Alphonsus Liguori
#81. 12Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love makes up for all offenses.
Anonymous
#82. If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#83. To meditate, stew, and brew on too many negative thoughts, distorts and super-sizes offenses and causes anger.
Stephen L. Bowen
#84. Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#86. Don't forget what people intend to use for harm, God can use for His greater good. Let offenses slide today, and watch how God works!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#87. A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe
#88. The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
African Spir
#89. The further south the throng went, the more reasons it discovered. Vendettas once sworn for half-forgotten offenses were remembered and invented with each passing blow. Everyone felt like a conduit of justice.
Adam Levin
#90. If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.
Bill Dedman
#91. My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.
Renzo Novatore
#92. Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
Margaret Fuller
#93. No matter what, you shall have a reason for action because of whom and what is closer to you and where you find yourself.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#94. MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.
Patricia Briggs
#95. A great number of people wake up each morning with the thought of not just how to pay back, but how to consciously or unconsciously live in the past!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#96. In so far as we interact with people each day from dawn to dusk, we shall surely be offended by people and we shall surely offend people
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
