Crime Quotes - Page 4

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

  Juvenal

  Different, Crowns, Bears

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• The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

  Ken Calvert

  Children, Abortion, Purpose

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• He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Encouragement, Philosophical, Doe

  "The Trojan Women". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1st century AD.

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• Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Failure, Destiny, Tyrants

  Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (1967) p. 64

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• The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

  Elias Canetti

  Darkness, Unexpected, Clutch

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

  Robert Duvall

  Punishment, Use, Pay

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• If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Inspirational, Guilt, Commit

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• Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ambition, Sublime, Lines

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Law, England, Penalties

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1885). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”

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• I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

  James Cash Penney

  Thinking, Long, Missing

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• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

  George Santayana

  Positive, War, Remembrance

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.262, Рипол Классик

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• I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

  Tupac Shakur

  Jail Time, Half, Months

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Funny, Gay, Men

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• The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Investing, May

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Pay, Hours

  1969 Take the Money and Run.

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• As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

  Georges Bizet

  Inspiring, Writing, Mean

  Letter to Edmond Galabert, and G., October 1866.

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• If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Peace, War, Defense

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• Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

  George Will

  Drug, Today, Offense

  George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

  Marquis de Sade

  Government, Skills, Answers

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• He threatens many that hath injured one.

  Ben Jonson

  Injured

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson ...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Biographical Memoir”, p.59

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• How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

  Henry George

  Children, Men, Class

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

  Charles Sturt

  Proportion, Wales, Colony

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.63

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• Foul deeds will rise,
  Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Earth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 256

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• There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

  Chuck Todd

  Stories, Links, Journalism

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• The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Judging, Literature

  "'Le Père Goriot' ('Father Goriot')". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Part II, 1835.

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