Crime Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

21 Crime quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s twenty‑one reflections treat crime as a symptom of larger spiritual and societal imbalances. His prose reads like a quiet sermon, urging readers to consider the deeper roots of misdeed.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

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Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

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Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all…

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which…

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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with…

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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest…

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that…

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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for…

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and…

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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.…

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Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals…

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The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and…

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“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the…

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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is…

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On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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