War Crimes Act

There are two acts known as the War Crimes Act

  • War Crimes Act 1991 of the United Kingdom
  • War Crimes Act of 1996 of the United States

Famous quotes containing the words war, crimes and/or act:

    “One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.”
    —Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)

    “As you from crimes would pardoned be,
    Let your indulgence set me free.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreative faculties are matured early, while passion is strong, and judgment and self-restraint weak. We cannot alter this, but we can alter what is conventional. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as a crime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance.”
    —Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)