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Crime |
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Quotations
 | This is worse than a crime, it's a mistake. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 76 likes |
| Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 11 likes |
 | The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 11 likes |
 | Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes |
| Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws. — 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 9 likes |
 | A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 8 likes |
 | The more laws, the more offenders. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 7 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 7 likes |
 | Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 7 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] 6 likes |
 | This is more than a crime. It is a mistake. — Prince Metternich, 1773-1859, Austrian statesman 6 likes |
 | Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name! — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 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 4 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) 4 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 4 likes |
 | Squeeze human nature into a straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear! — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. — Cardinal Richelieu, 1585-1642, French cardinal & Prime minister 4 likes |
 | The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 2 likes |
 | The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 2 likes |
 | It’s strange that some people commit crimes when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. — George Courteline, 1858-1929, French writer 2 likes |
 | The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 1 likes |
 | He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
 | 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. — Orson Welles, 1915-1985, American actor & film director 1 likes |
| 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. — Orson Welles, 1915-1985, American actor & film director 1 likes |
 | Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 1 likes |
 | If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
 | 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. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 1 likes |
 | Experience shows that it is much easier to take hostages than to release them. — André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist 1 likes |
 | 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. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | 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 1 likes |
| 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. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 1 likes |
| The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | Glory erases everything, everything except crime. — Alphonse de Lamartin, 1790-1869, French poet 1 likes |
 | Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 1 likes |
 | No crime can ever be justified by logical arguments. — Titus Livius, 59 BC-17 AD, Roman historian 1 likes |
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 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. (first publ. Dave Grusin and M. Ames) 5 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) 4 likes |
