Crime Quotes - Page 7

• Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

  Aristotle

  Inspiration, Parent, Politics

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Mean

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• In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Responsibility, Men, Sin

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• Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Thieves

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• Crime generally punishes itself.

  Oliver Goldsmith

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• Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

  George Farquhar

  Rewards, Prison, Virtue

  'The Inconstant' (1702) act 4, sc. 2

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• If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

  Arthur Baer

  Thumbs, Littles, Faces

  Arthur Baer (1925). “The family album”

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• The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

  Jean Racine

  Mother, Burden, Heavy

  Jean Racine (1885). “Racine's Phèdre, literally tr. by R. Mongan”

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• We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

  Allen Tucker

  Funny, Humor, Government

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• What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Vices, Prison, Multitudes

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• A crafty knave needs no broker.

  Horace

  Needs, Knaves, Brokers

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• Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

  Tom Cruise

  People, Humanity, Committed

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• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humor, Able

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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

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

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• Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Moving, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.565, Library of America

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• The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Events, World, Lasts

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.254, Vintage

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• Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Peace, Freedom

  "George Carlin: Doin' It Again", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

  James Ellroy

  Screws, Knows

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• Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

  Jean Genet

  Real, Men, People

  Jean Genet, Roger Blin (1969). “Letters to Roger Blin: reflections on the theater”

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• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

  William Hazlitt

  Vices, Heroism, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.39

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• I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

  Whitney Houston

  Friends, Being Alone, Mean

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• My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Music, Stupid, Simple

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Law, Drug

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• If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspirational, Country, Names

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• Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

  Frank Serpico

  Speaks Out, President, Speech

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