Pierre Trudeau Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Justice, May, Want

  Interview, Ottawa, 22 Dec. 1967

• What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Law, Criminals, Citizens

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

• Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Responsibility, Bedroom, Prohibition

  "The Globe and Mail" Newspaper, (p. 61), December 12, 1967.

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