Crime Quotes - Page 5

• The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mother, People, Drug

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Empathy, Faults

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• Crime is a product of social excess.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Excess, Social, Products

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• There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Squirrels, Glasses, Snow

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

  Joseph Conrad

  Real, Community, Mankind

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.145, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Political, Preparation, Society

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• Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

  James Anthony Froude

  Prison, Offense

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.223

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• The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Home, Difficult, Singularity

  "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891)

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• When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

  C.P. Snow

  Hero, Acceptance, Men

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.97, House of Stratus

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• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  Warren E. Burger

  Fabric, American Life

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• Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

  John Ruskin

  Hands, Punishment, Prevention

  "Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes". Book by John Ruskin, 1868.

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• But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

  Pablo Neruda

  Lying, Heart, One Day

  Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (2004). “Residence on Earth”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

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• One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Running, Government

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Punishment

  Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

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• Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

  Raymond Chandler

  Dirty, Dollars, Sides

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.352, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Acting, Danger

  'An Epistle to William Hogarth' (1763) l. 51

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• To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

  Egon Schiele

  Artist, Murder

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• One crime has to be concealed by another.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Prison, Concealed

  "Phaedra". Tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, DCCXXI, c. 290 AD.

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• Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

  Robert Kennedy

  Law, Community, Police

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

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• Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mother, Debt, Owing

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, Philosophical, Las Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.73, Vintage

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• There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Passion, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

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• Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

  Tupac Shakur

  Fighting, Pacs, Mines

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me Now, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• Between the acting of a dreadful thing
  And the first motion, all the interim is
  Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Acting, Firsts

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

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• I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

  James Q. Wilson

  Believe, Pay, Violent

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

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