Crime Quotes - Page 25

• War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Eye, Men

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• atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Criminals, Atrophy

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Parent, Sin, Hunger

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

  Gloria Steinem

  Passion, Possession, Crimes Of Passion

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• In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can't think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn't wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience.

  June Jordan

  Thinking, America, Issues

  June Jordan (1986). “On call: political essays”

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• It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Flames, Mind

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• The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Cities, Heaven, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.3

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• Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sight, Ease, Forget

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.478

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• Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Waiting

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 242, 1895.

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• He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Guilty, Produce

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.26

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• History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

  Washington Irving

  Men, History, Calendars

  1809 A History of NewYork, bk.4, ch.1.

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• It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

  Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

  Children, Book, Writing

  Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1910). “The Biography of a Boy”

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• The living grave of crime.

  Joaquin Miller

  Prison, Graves

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• These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.

  Robert Orben

  Punishment, Tvs, Criminals

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• Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

  John Dryden

  May, Oblivion

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.26

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• Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

  John Dryden

  Men, Virtue, Taxes

  John Dryden (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.231

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• Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

  Juvenal

  Men, Found

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• Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

  Juvenal

  Punishment, Evil, Guilt

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Satires, XIII, line 1, 1922.

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• He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

  Juvenal

  Guilt

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• Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

  Juvenal

  Assuming, Audacious

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• Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

  Meg Greenfield

  Drama, Simple, Reality

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• Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

  Emma Goldman

  Army, America, Joy

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• War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.

  Robert Southey

  War, Army, Evil

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• The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Pardon, Forgiven

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.64

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• The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Punishment, Familiar, Formidable

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.144

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