Crime Quotes - Page 30

• Stupidity is always a capital crime.

  Larry Niven

  Stupidity

  "N-Space". Book by Larry Niven, 1989.

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• Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.

  Joseph Priestley

  Children, Lying, Numbers

  Joseph Priestley (1831). “The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt”, p.196

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• When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.

  Margo St. James

  Sex, Men, Weapons

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• I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, Ideas, People

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably higher marks... The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.

  Mark Shields

  Jobs, Creating, Care

  "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.

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• In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.

  Henry Rollins

  Military, America, Two

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Lying, People, Twenties

  "Interview with Giulio Andreotti, Italian Former Prime Minister". Interview with Bill Delaney, www.cnn.com. September 24, 1995.

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• The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

  Lee De Forest

  Children, Father, Eye

  "The Man Who Made Radio Talk". Popular Science Monthly, May 1929.

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• When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Understanding, Humanity, Liberty

  Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, March 1, 2005.

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• I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  War, Done, Guilty

  "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, p. 5, 1995.

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• The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Men, Law, Desire

  "Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.

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• The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Strong, Exercise, Principles

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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• To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.

  Manly Hall

  War, Book, Writing

  "The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Diamond Jubilee Edition)". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1988.

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• A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

  Ted Godwin

  Finishing, Would Be, Done

  Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.40, University of Regina Press

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• If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Moving, People, Locks

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• Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.

  Lucy Parsons

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  "The Principles of Anarchism". A Lecture by Lucy E. Parsons, lucyparsons.org.

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• Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.

  Paul Ormerod

  Social Values, Cities, United States

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.

  Ilana Mercer

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "That Spot Of Bother On The Border". www.wnd.com. May 04, 2007.

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• There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

  Joey Comeau

  Loneliness, Drinking, Romance

  Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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• You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.

  Rod Coronado

  People, Done, Able

  "Feds arrest environment radical over S.D. speech" by Onell R. Soto, legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com. February 23, 2006.

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• Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides. We have done and will continue to do our best to support the persistent implementation of the Genocide Convention. Genocide cannot concern only one people, because it is a crime against humanity.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  People, Support, Humanity

  Speech by President Serzh Sargsyan in the Chatham House British Royal Institute of International Affairs, www.president.am. February 10, 2010.

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• It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Blow, Journey, Political

  President Serzh Sargsyan's Address on the Commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, April 24, 2010.

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• Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

  Widad Akrawi

  Rest In Peace, Party, Justice

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• Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

  Colin Flaherty

  Writing, Apology, Race

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• Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Strong, Causes, Drink

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