Crime Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

— Nicolas Chamfort

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life…

— Henry David Thoreau

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury,…

— Josiah Warren

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take…

— Henry David Thoreau

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens…

— Frank Wolf

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable…

— John Maynard Keynes

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hopelessness is the seed of crime. If every man had a goal and some hope for reaching it, we could really reduce crime.

— Johnny Paycheck

“Men,” said he “must, in some things, have deviated from their original innocence; for they were not born wolves, and yet they worry one…

— Voltaire