Thomas Paine Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Ignorance, Crime, Duty

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.136, Rowman & Littlefield

• Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

• You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Fear, Police, Complaining

• When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.1

• The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Government, Guilt

  Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.248

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