Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Crime

• Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Secret, Crime

• On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Real, Writing

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

• No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Compassion, Matter, Bees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Punishment, Fruit

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glasses, Criminals, Earth

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

• There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Blessed, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

• We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Liberty, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.335, University of Georgia Press

• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Punishment, Intelligence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.290, Library of America

• As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Medicine, Criminals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

• The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

• The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Men, Here And There

• The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Waiting, Eating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.540, Рипол Классик

• There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Squirrels, Glasses, Snow

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

• The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Reason, Crime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.13, Library of America

• The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crime, Cures, Blunders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

• Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Differences, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Рипол Классик

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