Crime Quotes - Page 6

• The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

  Max Stirner

  Government, Law, Libertarian Party

  "The Great Quotations". Book by George Seldes, p. 664, 1960.

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• To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

  Quintus Ennius

  House, Liberty, Citizens

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• 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".

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• A first impulse was never a crime.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Greatest Love, Firsts

  'Horace' (1640) act 5, sc. 3.

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• But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

  Frederick Soddy

  Ignorance, Men, Sin

  Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.

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• After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

  Louis Calhern

  Left Hand, Form, Asphalt

  "Fictional character: Alonzo Emmerich". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.

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• All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Kindness, Disease, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

  Tom Araya

  Book, People, Stuff

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• I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

  James Q. Wilson

  Believe, Pay, Violent

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

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• Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

  Seneca the Younger

  Successful, Law, Names

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• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  Jack Valenti

  Movie, Decay, Moral

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• Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Power, Drug, Linked

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• If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

  Paul Eldridge

  Self Esteem, Trials, Gallows

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• For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

  Mel Carnahan

  Sex, Past, Years

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• The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

  Ovid

  Punishment, Prison, Everlasting

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• The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Race, Lynching

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• It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

  Pierre Corneille

  Punishment, Disgrace

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• Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mind, Body, Action

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• The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

  John F. Kerry

  Should, Proportion, Consequence

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• The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

  Sara Paretsky

  Crime Novels, Favourite, Genre

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• White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

  Sara Paretsky

  White, America, Collars

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• Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

  Wallis Simpson

  Sports, Hunting, Foxes

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• Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
  [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

  Ovid

  Deeds, Absent, Inclination

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• He who allows oppression shares the crime.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Perseverance, Freedom, Democracy

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• Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Expression, Desire, Aesthetic

  Decline and Fall pt. 3, ch. 1 (1928)

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