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 | This is worse than a crime, it's a mistake. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 71 likes |
 | Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
| Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 9 likes |
 | The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 9 likes |
 | Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 8 likes |
| Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 7 likes |
 | A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 7 likes |
 | The more laws, the more offenders. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 6 likes |
 | The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 6 likes |
 | One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. — Rutherford B. Hayes, 1822-1893, American President [1877-1881] 5 likes |
 | Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 5 likes |
 | The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 3 likes |
 | But because I do it with a small ship, I am called a pirate, whilst you, who do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher (words of a pirate to Alexander the Great) 3 likes |
| It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 3 likes |
 | Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name! — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 3 likes |
 | Squeeze human nature into a straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear! — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. |
 | The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions. |
 | He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. |
 | The best of them were the kind of people you’d expect to drive a beer truck. They had no class. The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. |
| Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. |
 | Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal. |
 | If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. |
 | Oh dear, I'm feeling political today. It's just that it’s dawned on me that “zero tolerance” only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange. |
 | For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | Experience shows that it is much easier to take hostages than to release them. |
 | The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you. |
 | In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. |
 | The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
| What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone. |
| The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. |
 | Glory erases everything, everything except crime. |
 | The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. |
Funny Quotes
 | I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. (first publ. Dave Grusin and M. Ames) 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Now, you got a corpse in a car minus a head in the garage. Take me to it. — from the film Pulp Fiction (1994) 3 likes |
