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Quotes About Crime

Desrues was, however, I
~ Alexandre Dumas
a no nacer los malos pensamientos de una organización mala también, el crimen repugna a la naturaleza humana. Sin embargo, la civilización nos ha creado necesidades, vicios y falsos apetitos, cuya influencia llega tal vez a ahogar en nosotros los buenos instintos, arrastrándonos al mal.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Beaucoup de gens haïs ont été assassinés dans une émeute ; rarement un malheureux, fût-il criminel, a été insulté par les hommes qui assistaient à sa condamnation à mort. Villefort traversa donc la haie des spectateurs, des gardes, des gens du Palais, et s'éloigna, reconnu coupable de son propre aveu, mais protégé pur sa douleur.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Seek whom the crime will profit,' says an axiom of jurisprudence.
~ Alexandre Dumas
unless an evil thought is born in a twisted mind, human nature is repelled by crime. However, civilization has given us needs, vices and artificial appetites which sometimes cause us to repress our good instincts and lead us to wrongdoing
~ Alexandre Dumas
if you wish to find the guilty party, first discover whose interests the crime serves!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Voi donne, viceversa, ben di rado siete tormentate dai rimorsi, giacché ben di rado la decisione origina da voi, le vostre sventure quasi sempre sono il crimine altrui.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Her sobs and tears were so vehement that her brothers' grief seemed cold beside hers. Nobody suspected a crime, so no autopsy was held; the tomb was closed, and not the slightest suspicion had approached her.
~ Alexandre Dumas
el crimen repugna a la naturaleza humana. Sin embargo, la civilización nos ha creado necesidades, vicios y falsos apetitos, cuya influencia llega tal vez a ahogar en nosotros los buenos instintos, arrastrándonos al mal.
~ Alexandre Dumas
During my stay in the United States, I witnessed the spontaneous formation of committees in a country for the pursuit and prosecution of a man who had committed a great crime. In Europe, a criminal is an unhappy man who is struggling for his life against the agents of power, whilst the people are merely a spectator of the conflict: in America, he is looked upon as an enemy of the human race, and the whole of mankind is against him.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Suppose, for instance, that the President of the United States has committed the crime of high treason; the House of Representatives impeaches him, and the Senate degrades him; he must then be tried by a jury, which alone can deprive him of his liberty or his life.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Bir suçlu asla bir ad?m öndeyken teslim olmaz. Senin bir ad?m önde olduÄŸun aÅŸikar. Sebebi ne? İnsan?n ba??na gelen en lanet ÅŸey. Vicdan ad? verilen nadir bulunan bir hastal??? yakaland?m.
~ Alfred Bester
Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima
~ Alfred Hitchcock
We don't need to make a living off of other people's pain...the newspapers want violence, retribution, crime, sin.
~ Alice Hoffman
But this awakening of sensitivity for the martyrdom of childhood has far-reaching consequences: Suddenly it is no longer possible to regard cruelty, perversion, and crime as a form of upbringing for our own good; we are forced to come to a decision and stop finding excuses for crime.
~ Alice Miller
For Lorenz, virgins were not a part of his world. He was skeptical of many things I said. Later, when the serology reports proved that what I had said was not a lie, that I had been a virgin, and that I was telling the truth, he could not respect me enough. I think he felt responsible, somehow. It was, after all, in his world where this hideous thing had happened to me. A world of violent crime.
~ Alice Sebold
If a ruler suffers subjects to be ill-educated, and then punishes them for crimes they commit in their ignorance, what else can we conclude but that he first makes thieves and then punishes them!
~ Alison Weir
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Every murder proves that hanging is not altogether deterrent; every hanging, that it is somewhat deterrent—it deters the person hanged.
~ Ambrose Bierce
In Bacon we see the culminating prime Of British intellect and British crime.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Justificarea tiranului pentru crime ÅŸi scuza prostului pentru eÅŸecuri este destinul.
~ Ambrose Bierce
there are four kinds of homicide felonious excusable justifiable and praise worthy
~ Ambrose Bierce
Brower was as courageous a criminal as ever lived to be hanged.
~ Ambrose Bierce An Arrest