Crime Justification Quotes

Treason is not own'd when 'tis decried; Successful crimes alone are justified.

Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name.

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

If this trade --- slavery --- admits of a moral or a rational justification, every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.