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Crime Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That…
- I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it…
- The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put…
- Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or…
- In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.
- A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
- Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and…
- I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they…
- This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
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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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- 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