Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

Augustus Hare

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Juvenal

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Diane Arbus

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Charles Dickens

Are there no prisons?

Charles Dickens

Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

Charles Spurgeon

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

Alan Moore

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

David Henry Hwang

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Chaka Khan

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are worse prisons than words.

Edward Flynn

It's a strange thing to say, but it made me feel proud of the neighborhood I live in -- even though my neighborhood is in prison right now.

Brendan Behan

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Chris Christie

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Louis Stokes

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Lyndon Johnson

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Jumana Musa

There is no level of crime that is so bad... that rights no longer exist.

William Ross

Until there is some direct thing done to prevent crime before it happens, it is going to keep happening. If a curfew can prevent crime before it happens, so be it.

Alfred Newman

Crime does not pay as well as politics.