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~ They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred. ~

Robert Southey

~ If you commit a crime, you're guilty. ~

Rush Limbaugh

~ We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes. ~

James Fenimore Cooper

~ The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. ~

Stephen Ambrose

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

Ambrose Bierce

~ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ~

Aristotle

~ But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime ~

Frederic Bastiat

~ The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime ~

Emma Goldman

~ Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. ~

Emile M. Cioran

~ There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment. ~

Earl Warren

~ I do not wish to give up the power of personal arms and be defenseless against those who will ever and always keep and bear arms those in crime and those in government. ~

Robert W. Burke

~ Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ~

Cyril Connolly

~ But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, ~

Samuel Johnson

~ We needn't first conduct cross-national comparision to determine if crimes like rape or massacre should be prohibited in our place. ~

Joe Chung

~ Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways. ~

Marlen E. Pew

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

Oscar Wilde

~ Crime is a product of social excess. ~

Vladimir Lenin

~ There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. ~

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

~ We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor, ~

Samuel Johnson

~ I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. ~

Blanche Lincoln

~ 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

~ Rumors are seen as crimes committed by third parties. They are perfect crimes and leave not the slightest trace and require no weapons whatsoever--the defense is left without a leg to stand on. ~

JEAN-NOEL KAPFERER

~ The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium. ~

Rand Beers

~ Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. ~

Joseph Addison

~ The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie. ~

Muhammad

~ Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime? ~

Marquis De Sade

~ Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ~

Eli Khamarov

~ 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 brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ~

Oscar Wilde

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