Crime Quotes: Captivating Thoughts on Criminal Minds (Page 2)

"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

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

Ronald Reagan, President

"No crime is so great as daring to excel"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail"

Lord Byron, Poet

"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"One crime has to be concealed by another"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"

George Carlin, Comedian

"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"

Will Rogers, Actor

"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, Author

"Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes"

George Will, Journalist

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

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat"

John Morley, Statesman

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

John Ruskin, Writer

"If you commit a crime, you're guilty"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Poverty is not the root cause of crime"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all"

Tacitus, Historian

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear"

Karl Kraus, Writer

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

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

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

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes"

George W. Bush, President

"A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

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