The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly. Charles A. Reich
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. Stand Watie
But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! Abraham Lincoln
Clearly, a great crime had been committed against this boy; yet nobody who had had a hand in it - the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the complaining witness, the policemen and jailers - felt any responsibility about it, because they were not acting as men, but as officials. Albert Jay Nock
We consider it a great crime to work against the Western and Christian style of life: it is not just the bomber but the ideologist who is the danger. Jorge Rafael Videla
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with. Jo Nesbo