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Crime Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
- Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
- Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
- As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
- Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
- The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
- We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with…
- There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime,…
- The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
- The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
- Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
- There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and…
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- Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. — Mikhail Bakunin
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- Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville