Crime Quotes - Page 38

• Saddam Hussein is about to face trial and George Bush wants to execute him. Not because of the war crimes, but because Saddam is beating him in the polls.

  Craig Kilborn

  War, Trials, Hussein

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• Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

  Arundhati Roy

  Poverty, Poor, Terrorist

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• 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)

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• Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

  Norm MacDonald

  Criminals, Sensible, Dies

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• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, Desire

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• None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

  Norm MacDonald

  Guilt, Vices, Bears

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• I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes and the crimes which they have instigated, men of faith who claim to be sent by God. I hope they will eventually realize that the revolution which they believe they have brought about is not to the glory of God, but serves the forces of evil.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Mistake, Believe, Men

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 167, 1980.

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• Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Coercion, Action, Force

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1938). “Pilgrimage”

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• The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Men, Deny, Young

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• [T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Democracy, Sound

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage

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• Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

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• Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Angel, Dark

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• Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.

  George H. W. Bush

  Life, Change, Morning

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• Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Money, Thinking, Government

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• For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Men, Credit

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• There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Example, Morality

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• The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Heart, Hands, Might

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• Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

  Cato the Younger

  Effects, Magistrates

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• Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

  Walter Scott

  Real, Greatness, Long

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Silly, Men

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.

  Frederick William Faber

  Christian, Wise, Names

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• Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Wickedness, Succeed

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• Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

  P. D. James

  Unique, Murder, Victim

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.182, Faber & Faber

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• Let the punishment fit the crime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Punishment, Fit

  The Mikado act 2 (1885)

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• The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Eye, Law, Protect

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