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"Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is." »Alexander Senturia
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"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage." »Joseph Addison
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"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage." »Joseph Addison
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"The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime." »Elsa Barker
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"crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil." »Marquis de Sade
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"If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people." »Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
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"Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses." »Winston Churchill
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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." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." »Colin Greenwood
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"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." »G. Gordon Liddy
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"A crime which is the crime of many none avenge." »Lucan
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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" »George Carlin
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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they" »George Carlin
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"Gluttony is not a secret vice." »Orson Welles
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"Ambition is not a vice of little people." »Michel de Montaigne
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"My only aversion to vice, is the price." »Victor Buono
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"More anticipated the beginning.... Less welcome is the end.... and vice versa" »Siddharth Astir
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"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues." »Quintilian
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"crime does not pay ... as well as politics." »Alfred E. Newman
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"It's not failure, but low aim is crime." »Lowell
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"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented." »Edith Sitwell
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"Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise." »William Blake
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"Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so." »Chinese Proverb
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"Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it." »Anonymous
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"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." »Honore' de Balzac
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"The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law." »Alex Levin
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"You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice." »Ursula Le Guin
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"Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need." »Voltaire
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