Crime Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

Quotes with keyword Crime
0 1 2 3 4 5 6

~ Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~

Ernest Hemingway

~ The mother of revolution and crime is poverty. ~

Aristotle

~ Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ~

Freda Adler

~ It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant. ~

Percy Bysshe Shelley

~ Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ~

John Ruskin

~ Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society. ~

Daniel Webster

~ Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~

Nicole Hollander

~ What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~

Hannah Arendt:

~ No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined ~

Paul Gallico

~ The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. ~

Ben Jonson

~ The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ~

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

~ Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. ~

Woody Allen

~ Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ~

W.H. Auden

~ When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues. ~

Honor de Balzac

~ Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~

Nicole Hollander

~ Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ~

Joseph Marie de Maistre

~ Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ~

Freda Adler

~ By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind. ~

Chuang Tzu

~ Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ~

Freda Adler

~ [History is] little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ~

Edward Gibbon

~ War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. ~

Alfred Adler

~ The mother of revolution and crime is poverty. ~

Aristotle

~ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ~

Aristotle

~ Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~

Max Stirner

Page : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6