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Crime Quotes by Marquis de Sade
- It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our…
- The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal…
- Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in…
- Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is…
- Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
- All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost…
- The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of…
- How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate…
- The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed…
- Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
- What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that…
- Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.…
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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
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- 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