Criminal Offence

Famous quotes containing the words criminal and/or offence:

“How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“One would think, that a deliberate and practical denial of its authority was the only offence never contemplated by government; else, why has it not assigned its definite, its suitable and proportionate, penalty?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)