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:

    “Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.”
    —Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)

    “One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)