Crime Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

  Samuel Johnson

  Self, Giving, Growth

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.37

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• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  Karl Shapiro

  Children, Hate, Knows

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• Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

  Ovid

  Years, Taught, Prison

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• For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Law, Trying

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.190, Vintage

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• Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

  Augustus Hare

  Vices, Littles, Too Much

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• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  Karl Kraus

  Justice, Criminals, Human Nature

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

  Paulo Coelho

  Party, Blow, Perfect

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Uncommitted, Art Is

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Order, Law

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• The crime of loving is forgetting.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Forget, Loving Deeply

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• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Paul Gallico

  Baseball, Punishment, Games

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

  Henry Miller

  Prison Life, Literature, Prisoner

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Criminals, Condemnation

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Strong, Men, Bed

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1207, Ageless Reads

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• Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Ideas, Atheism, Watches

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• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheist, Ideas, Religion

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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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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• Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

  Cyril Connolly

  Class, Delirium Tremens, Apathy

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• Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

  Jean Racine

  Innocence, Extremes, Great Ones

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• To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

  Roger Ebert

  Unhappy

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Life Itself: A Memoir”, p.291, Hachette UK

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• Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

  W. H. Auden

  Forgiveness, Party, Unique

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• Crooks are early adopters.

  Craig Newmark

  Crooks

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• For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

  Juvenal

  Deeds, Guilty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 209, 1922.

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