"A first impulse was never a crime." — Pierre Corneille

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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
• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the… — Hannah Arendt
• Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of… — 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… — Paul Auster
• Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious… — 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… — Johnny Ball
• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us… — 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

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