Edmund Burke Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

  Edmund Burke

  Prison, Crime, Capable

  "Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Between the Year 1744 and the Period of His Decease, in 1797".

• The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

  Edmund Burke

  Feelings, Desire, Want

  "Impact of a Father's Reflection". Book by Frank L. Day, p. 44, 2010.

• Responsibility prevents crimes.

  Edmund Burke

  Responsibility, Prison, Crime

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

• The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, War, Men

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.204

• To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

  Edmund Burke

  Language, Speak, Virtue

  Attributed in "Captain William Kidd: And Others of the Pirates Or Buccaneers who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, (p. 179), 1876.

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