Quotes with crime

Quotes 121 till 140 of 150.

  • Henry Miller The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.
    Leviathan (1651) XV
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Max Stirner The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
    Max Stirner
    German philosopher (ps. by Johan C. Schmidt) (1806 - 1856)
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  • Henry Miller The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Barry McCaffrey The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Lord Melbourne The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • William Hazlitt There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Farquhar There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • George Santayana To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Alfred Adler War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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  • Horace We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Will Rogers We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Carrie P. Meek We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Angela Davis Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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