Crime Quote by Jean Racine

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

— Jean Racine

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

— Jean Racine

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

— Anatole France

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights;…

— Jean Racine

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

— Honore de Balzac

A first impulse was never a crime.

— Pierre Corneille

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

— Sheila Rowbotham

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

— Anonymous

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

— Jean Racine

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Too much virtue can be criminal.

— Jean Racine