Crime Quotes

• When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Caring, Causes, Symptoms

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Educational

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

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• Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Mother, Prison, Purposelessness

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• He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

  Publilius Syrus

  Helping, Guilty, Share

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 139,

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  The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

  Ayn Rand

  Wisdom, Power, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.334, Hamilton Books

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• Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

  Edmund Burke

  Prison, Capable

  "Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Between the Year 1744 and the Period of His Decease, in 1797".

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• But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

  William Cowper

  Heaven, Doubt, Records

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• A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, No Excuses, Excuse

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• Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Men, Differences

  "Literary Essays, vol. II". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1870-1890.

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  When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Birthday, Baseball

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• What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Clever, Men, Political

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• The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artist, Creative, Criticism

  The Innocence of Father Brown "The Blue Cross" (1911)

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• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

  Peire Cardenal

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Doe, Littles

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• If little faults proceeding on distemper
  Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
  When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
  Appear before us?

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Drinking, Eye

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Moving, Twilight

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humor, Criminals

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.271, Knopf

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• Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

  Friedrich Engels

  Philosophical, Law, Criminals

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• About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

  Howie Carr

  Boston, Years, Covering

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• Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Birthday, Growing Up, Getting Older

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