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Crime Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with…
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence,…
- I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their…
- Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .…
- The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the…
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