"The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's……" — Mark Steyn
"The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people."
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56 Quotes by Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn has 56 quotes on this site.
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If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there…
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Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator,…
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's…
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Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?
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Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
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We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely…
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The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
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Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy…
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There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention…
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Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand…
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up…
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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is…
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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…
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— HonorÈ 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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