Crime Quotes - Page 2

• Petty laws breed great crimes.

  Ouida

  Law, Liberty, Libertarian

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.260, Ouida

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• The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Errors, Vices, Rich

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• No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

  Livy

  Rational

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 28,

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• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

  H. G. Wells

  Community, Criminals, Literature

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Military, War

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

  Antonia Fraser

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

  Juvenal

  Bears, Different, Crowns

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 103, 1922.

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• Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Roots, Poverty, Causes

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• It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Pregnancy, Humor

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• I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

  Mark Millar

  Writing, Fairytale, Break

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• The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hitting, Unforgivable, Avoided

  1913 Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography.

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• In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

  Alan Autry

  Cities, Perception, Momentum

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Limits, Injustice, Ifs

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

  Janet Reno

  America, Effort, Community

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• For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
  [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
  Facti crimen habet.]

  Juvenal

  Deeds, Guilty

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• The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Best Love, Women, Heart

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby

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• Actions receive their tincture from the times,
  And as they change are virtues made or crimes

  Daniel Defoe

  Action, Virtue, Made

  'A Hymn to the Pillory' (1703) l. 29

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• Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

  Juvenal

  Men, He Man, Committed

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• A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

  Aristotle

  Government, Political, Noble

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1280b.30 - 1281a.3,

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• No crime is vulgar,
  but all vulgarity is crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vulgarity Is, Vulgar, Vulgarity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

  Patty Duke

  Being Me, Bigger, Ill

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• Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

  Mark Frost

  Elements, Consistent, Human Experience

  Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.152, Open Road Media

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• I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

  Howard Coble

  Play, Drug, Roles

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• It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

  Ed McBain

  Character, Squad, People

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• Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

  Jerry Weller

  Fetus, Harm

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