(1749 quotes found)
“The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires”
Edmund Burke
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.”
Dorothea Dix
“Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
Jean Baudrillard
“Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.”
Marquis De Sade
“Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been convicted before this court may it rest assured that when my sentence has been completed, I will still be moved as men are always moved, by their consci”
Nelson Mandela
“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
Albert Camus
“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people”
Avram Noam Chomsky
“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.”
Eli Khamarov
