Quotes
Quotes about Crime
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. [Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis.]
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law. [Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni; Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
