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“He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.”
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“The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing”
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“Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it”
Henry Thomas Buckle Quotes |
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“I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.”
Peter Kirk Quotes |
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“The worst crime is faking it”
Kurt Cobain Quotes |
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“The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires”
Edmund Burke Quotes |
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“He who profits by a crime commits it”
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“Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.”
G. Gordon Liddy Quotes |
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“If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own”
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“Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
[It., Non nella pena,
Nel delitto e la infamia.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes Source: Antigone (I, 3)
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“The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il reo
D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
La pena spetta.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes Source: Antigone (II, 2)
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“Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
[It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,
Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes Source: Oreste (I, 2)
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“Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere
desire of occupation.
[Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta
committi.]”
Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus) Quotes Source: Annales (XXX, 9)
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“There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 870)
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“A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: The Lady of Lyons (act IV, sc. 1)
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“Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto I, st. 3)
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“The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes Source: Essex (IV, 3)
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“But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 439)
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“It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]”
Joseph Fouche Quotes Source: as quoted by himself in his Memoires referring to the murder of the Duc Enghien
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“Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as
prejudicial to society.
- James Anthony Froude,”
James Anthony Froude Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Reciprocal Duties of State and Subjects
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“Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes Source: Marble Faun (vol. I, ch. XXIII)
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“It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (bk. I, 2, 134)
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“A crafty knave needs no broker.”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (bk. I, 2, 134)
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“'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Volpone (act III, sc. 6)
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