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The offender never pardons. -- George Herbert
I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender. -- Rick Mercer
For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King. -- Howard Staunton
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? -- Alexander Pope
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. -- Blaise Pascal
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do. -- Miroslav Volf
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. -- John Ashcroft
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. -- Preston Brooks
I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender. -- David Dobkin
If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender. -- Miroslav Volf
Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender. -- Ronald Kessler
As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates. -- Jenny Downham
When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling. -- Daniel Goldstein
I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender. I'm happy to go at anything that has a cause to be laughed at. -- David Dobkin
People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is. -- Peter F. Hamilton
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.' -- Kevin Barry
Love the offender, yet detest the offense. -- Alexander Pope
The offender, who repents, is not yet lost. -- Democritus
Every shy person is a potential sex offender. -- Nelson Rodrigues
The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment. -- Voltaire
I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar. -- Rick Nielsen
Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes. -- Max Lucado
To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. -- L. Frank Baum
An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender. -- John Kador
Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick. -- Gary Smalley
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. -- John Locke
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course. -- Clarence Darrow
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender -- Juvenal
If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender. -- Bill Hicks
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Have you ever thought about registering as a sex offender just so your friends won't bring their kids over to your house? -- Doug Stanhope
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity. -- John Locke
How come everybody cheers when chicks flash their T&A, but when I pull out my D&Bs, i'm a registered sex offender. -- Daniel Tosh
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them. -- Junius
But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love. -- Oswald Chambers
Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you. -- Roy Masters
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him. -- Richard Whately
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love. -- Gary Chapman
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.] -- Juvenal
If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal? -- Ali Altantawi
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act. -- Emma Goldman
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender. -- Marlene Dietrich
It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves. -- Louise Jordan Miln
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies. -- John Dryden
I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
In order to forgive an offender,we have first to forgive ourselves,then we can forgive them.In this way we are nothelpless victims anymore,we regain our power,acting from our peaceful placeof power. -- Human Angels
I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill. -- Mike DeWine
Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance -- Howard Zehr

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