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“Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One
bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 103)
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“By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 2)
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“For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 209)
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“You are not to do evil that good may come of it.
[Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 209)
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“The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 1, 64)
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“Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our
inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Fasti (bk. III, 309)
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“Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of
nature.
[Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Heroides (IV, 25)
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“The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
[Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]”
Jean Baptiste Racine Quotes Source: Phedre (III, 3)
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“With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.”
Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Cecil Salisbury, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury Quotes Source: in a speech in the House of Lords
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“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.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Hercules Furens (CCLI)
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“Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.”
Jean Baptiste Racine Quotes |
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“There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.”
Ramsey Clark Quotes |
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“Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.”
Charles H. Parkhurst Quotes |
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“Set a thief to catch a thief.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.”
Allen Tucker Quotes |
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“Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.”
Duchess Of Windsor Quotes |
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“I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 months
in which I rationalized.”
O Anna Niemus Quotes |
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“If blue collar jobs are leaving
and white collar jobs are outsourced
what color collar jobs are left?”
Bob Edwards Quotes |
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“If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.”
Arthur Bugs Baer Quotes |
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“And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?”
Robert Emmet Sherwood Quotes |
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“Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
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“It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.”
Don Marquis Quotes |
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“Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.”
Jr Quotes |
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“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”
Henry Ford Quotes |
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