Crime Quotes
These are some of the best 'Crime' quotations and sayings.
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Crime is not punished as an offence against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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Crimes lead into one another.-They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
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For the credit of virtue it must be admitted that the greatest evils which befall mankind are caused by their crimes.
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
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It is supposable that in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but in degree of wickedness.
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Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
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Of all the adult male criminals in London, not two in a hundred have entered upon a course of crime who have lived an honest life up to the age of twenty. - Almost all who enter on a course of crime do so between the ages of eight and sixteen.
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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. - Criminals collected together corrupt each other. - They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
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The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
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Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes, are ever backward to suspect others.
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We easily forget our faults when they are known only to ourselves.
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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
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Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.
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