"No man was ever more than about nine……" — Eric Sevareid
"No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide."
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28 Quotes by Eric Sevareid
Eric Sevareid has 28 quotes on this site.
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
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The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of…
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house…
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand…
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The chief source of problems is solutions.
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You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
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For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
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Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
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Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
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There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be…
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The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want…
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More Crime Quotes
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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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