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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
[It., Non nella pena,
Nel delitto e la infamia.]
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
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.]
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
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.]
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
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.]
Author: Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus)
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.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 870)
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A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
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.
Author: William Cowper
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.]
Author: Joseph Fouche
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,
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Reciprocal Duties of State and Subjects
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Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: Marble Faun (vol. I, ch. XXIII)
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It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (bk. I, 2, 134)
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A crafty knave needs no broker.
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Volpone (act III, sc. 6)
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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.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (XIII, 103)
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By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (XIII, 209)
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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Racine
Source: Phedre (III, 3)
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With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
Author: Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Cecil Salisbury, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury
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.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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.
Author: Jean Baptiste Racine
Source: None
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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.
Author: Ramsey Clark
Source: None
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Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Author: Charles H. Parkhurst
Source: None
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Set a thief to catch a thief.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
Author: Allen Tucker
Source: None
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Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
Author: Duchess Of Windsor
Source: None
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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.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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If blue collar jobs are leaving
and white collar jobs are outsourced
what color collar jobs are left?
Author: Bob Edwards
Source: None
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If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
Author: Arthur Bugs Baer
Source: None
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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?
Author: Robert Emmet Sherwood
Source: None
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Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Source: None
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Author: Don Marquis
Source: None
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Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
Author: Jr
Source: None
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Author: Henry Ford
Source: None
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None
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All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Source: None
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Author: George Washington
Source: None
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Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
Source: None
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Source: None
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What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
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Crime is a product of social excess.
Author: Lenin, Vladimir
Source: None
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Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Author: Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Source: None
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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