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Crime Quotes by Clarence Darrow
- The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life;…
- If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make…
- There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
- Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime.…
- It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an…
- There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and…
More Crime Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- 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