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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• Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

  Robert Kennedy

  Criminals, Enforcement, Kind

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Want

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• Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

  Dick Francis

  Law, Way, Ifs

  Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.104, Penguin

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• The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

  Bess Myerson

  Moral Corruption, Indifference, Accomplices

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• Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

  Alan Autry

  Community

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

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• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  Xunzi

  Faith, Loyalty, Hate

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• The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Track, Literature, Difficult

  Oldiees Publishing, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, E. W. Hornung (2014). “50 Crime Short Stories - THE BEST SHORT WORKS COLLECTION”, p.441, Oldiees Publishing

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• There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

  Simone Weil

  Wisdom, Justice, Modern

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.31, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Pay, Prohibition

  "Does Crime Pay" in The Scandal Annual by the Paragon Project, p. 7, 1987.

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• Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

  Voltaire

  Fear, Punishment, Prison

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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Enough

  Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil epilogue (1963)

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• I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Effort, Literature

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, History, Tourism

  'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 3.

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• Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

  Freda Adler

  Funny, Philosophical, Humor

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1649, Delphi Classics

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• Poverty is the mother of crime.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mother, Philosophical, Poverty

  "Well Said, Well Spoken: 736 Quotable Quotes for Educators". Book edited by Robert D. Ramsey, p. 30, 2001.

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• Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

  George Jackson

  Passion, Men, Guilty

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Punishment, Doe, Disgrace

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 148), 1922.

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• The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

  Spalding Gray

  New York, Thinking, Faces

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• All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Fighting, Terrorism

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• Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

  James Q. Wilson

  Character, Pay

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• The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

  Horace

  Courage, Race, Law

  "Carmina". I. 3. 25,

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• The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Apology, Law

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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