Crime Quotes - Page 8

• There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Simple, Law, Way

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• But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Government, Giving

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.18, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Peace, War, Criminals

  "The Pathway of Peace". Speech to the Canadian Bar Association, Montreal, Ontario. "The Pathway of Peace : Representative Addresses Delivered During His Term as as secretary of state (1921-1925)" by Charles Evans Hughes, September 04, 1923.

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• He has committed the crime who profits by it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Poverty, Profit

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

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• Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Change, Taken, Character

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Punishment, Intelligence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.290, Library of America

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• Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Punishment, Charity

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• Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Desire, Wicked, Occupation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Annales, XXX. 9, 1922.

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• Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Organized, Organized Crime

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• Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

  Marion Barry

  Funny, Country, Crazy

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 1989

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• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Plague, Criminality, Termination

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• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  Abdul Kalam

  India, Sickness, Terrorism

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• A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.230, Courier Corporation

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• Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Taken, Fruit

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.803

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• No crime is so great as daring to excel.

  Winston Churchill

  Hypocrisy, Risk, Daring

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• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Succeed, Virtue

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

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• As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

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

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• The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

  Edmund Burke

  Feelings, Desire, Want

  "Impact of a Father's Reflection". Book by Frank L. Day, p. 44, 2010.

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• The worst crime is faking it.

  Kurt Cobain

  Music, Fake People, Jazz

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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Firsts

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.238, Penguin

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• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Sisterhood, Giving

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• Successful crimes alone are justified.

  John Dryden

  Funny, Humor, Successful

  'The Medal' (1682) l. 207

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• A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

  Tacitus

  Inspirational, Blessing, Reality

  Cornelius Tacitus (1964). “The histories”

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• Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

  Voltaire

  History, Dump, Tableau

  L'Ingenu ch. 10 (1767) See Gibbon 4

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• The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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