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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
Little liberties are great offenses. -- Aesop
Affection exaggerates its own offenses ... -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Those who easily forgive invite offenses. -- Pierre Corneille
We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short. -- Beth Moore
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes -- George Will
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. -- Robert Burton
Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. -- Hillary Clinton
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. -- Anthony de Mello
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. -- Horace
A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty. -- Baal Shem Tov
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance! -- Moliere
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional. -- Joseph Wambaugh
My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things. -- Renzo Novatore
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God. -- John Vianney
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom. -- Aristotle
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
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
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
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
Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever. -- Jane Austen
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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