Crime Quotes - Page 2

• Petty laws breed great crimes.

  Ouida

  Law, Liberty, Libertarian

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.260, Ouida

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• No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

  Livy

  Rational

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 28,

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• The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Errors, Vices, Rich

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• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

  H. G. Wells

  Community, Criminals, Literature

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books

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• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Military, War

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

  Juvenal

  Bears, Different, Crowns

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 103, 1922.

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• I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

  Antonia Fraser

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Roots, Poverty, Causes

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• It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Pregnancy, Humor

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• I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

  Mark Millar

  Writing, Fairytale, Break

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• The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hitting, Unforgivable, Avoided

  1913 Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography.

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• My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

  Janet Reno

  America, Effort, Community

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• For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
  [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
  Facti crimen habet.]

  Juvenal

  Deeds, Guilty

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• If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Limits, Injustice, Ifs

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

  Alan Autry

  Cities, Perception, Momentum

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Best Love, Women, Heart

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby

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• Actions receive their tincture from the times,
  And as they change are virtues made or crimes

  Daniel Defoe

  Action, Virtue, Made

  'A Hymn to the Pillory' (1703) l. 29

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• We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

  Vicente Fox

  Country, Effort, Drug

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• Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  People, Soldier, Kind

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• Small crimes always precedes great ones.

  Jean Racine

  Great Ones

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• I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

  Edward Blake

  Borders, Carnivals

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• A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Feelings, Resentment, Host

  W F. Lyons, Thomas Francis Meagher (1871). “Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher: his political and military career; with selections from his speeches and writings”, p.13

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• Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

  Jerry Weller

  Fetus, Harm

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• I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

  Howard Coble

  Play, Drug, Roles

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• It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

  Ed McBain

  Character, Squad, People

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