Quotes
Quotes about Crime
Blasphemy is a victimless crime.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum Rara juventus.]
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer?
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-- To let the punishment fit the crime.
Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono Scerne il dolor del fallo.]
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them, but abound In the division of each several crime, Acting in many ways.
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.
As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."
Why slander we the times? What crimes Have days and years, that we Thus charge them with iniquity? If we would rightly scan, It's not the times are bad, but man.
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart.
