Crime Quotes

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. (Honoré de Balzac)
Poverty is the mother of crime. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. View quote
Victor Hugo
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. View quote
Bruce Lee
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. View quote
Henry Thomas Buckle
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. View quote
David Dinkins
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. View quote
William Hazlitt
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. (Henry David Thoreau)
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. View quote
James Frazer
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. View quote
John Ruskin
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. View quote
Emil Cioran
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. View quote
Emil Cioran
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. View quote
Livy
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. (Vittorio Alfieri)
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. View quote
Imre Lakatos
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. View quote
Joseph de Maistre
Stupidity is always a capital crime. View quote
Larry Niven