"Prison for the crime of puberty -- that……" — David Brin
"Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed."
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54 Quotes by David Brin
David Brin has 54 quotes on this site.
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually…
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
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Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
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When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
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My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they…
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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be…
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In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the…
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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
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In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs…
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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.
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The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
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More Crime Quotes
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one of 2,562 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
— Paul Auster
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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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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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— Honore de Balzac
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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