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“Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.”

Crime Battle Ancestor Posterity

Author:Horace

“To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.”

Men May Crime Battle Sacred Abandon Council Shields Escaping Rite Infamy

Book:Germania by Tacitus

Source: Germania by Tacitus

“It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.”

Eye Dark Struggle Crime Battle Angel Excess Wickedness Lanes

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

Source: Hemingway on War

“It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.”

“Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.”

Ifs Giving Believe Opportunity Lost Crime Battle Illusion Mere Soldier Profession Lawyer Clients

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If I dare to tear up or shed a tear, then I'm criticized for that as well! It's a horrible double standard, but quite frankly, I don't have time enough to fight that battle and fight crime. I chose to fight crime and ignore the rest. I just keep going to the best I can.”

Ifs Wells I Can Enough Fighting Crime Tears Battle Standards Dare Horrible Keep Going Shed Double Standard

Author:Nancy Grace

“All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime, in the long battle I’d just signed on for to right the wrongs in the Alchemist and Moroi worlds. Maybe Marcus was right that I’d also signed myself up for disaster, but I didn’t care. In that moment, it seemed that as long as Adrian and I were together, there was no challenge too great for us.”

World Long Moments Care Together Challenges Crime Battle Partners Disaster That Moment Alchemist Partners In Crime

Book:The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel