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Crime Quotes by Albert Camus
- For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts…
- Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone,…
- I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
- Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts…
- There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
- We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to…
- When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one…
- We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their…
- No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation.…
- . habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
More Crime Quotes
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- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster
- Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter… — Michael Badnarik
- Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for… — Honore de Balzac
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. — Honore de Balzac
- Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville