Crime

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Crime in the field of sociology is the breach of a rule or law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment. The word crime originates from the Latin crimen (genitive criminis), from the Latin root cernō and Greek κρινω = "I judge". Originally it meant "charge (in law), guilt, accusation".

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  • It is written ' Thou shalt not kill,' so because he has killed, are we to kill him ? No, that's impossible.
  • Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
    • H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (1905), Chapter 5; reprinted in The Works of H.G. Wells. Vol. 9 (1925).
  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only in crease, but never do away with, crime.

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  • If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
  • We don't seem able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
    • Will Rogers, reported in reported in Evan Esar, 20,000 quips & quotes (Barnes & Noble Publishing, April 1995), p. 193. ISBN 1566195292.
  • The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
  • Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
    • Lyndon B. Johnson, reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 27. ISBN 0312307446.
  • Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
    • Marcus Garvey, reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 84. ISBN 0312307446.
  • Anyone who takes it on himself, on his own authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
    • Denis Diderot, reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 84. ISBN 0312307446.
  • One man's justice is another's injustice; One man's beauty another's ugliness; One man's wisdom another's folly.
  • Justice is truth in action.
    • Benjamin Disraeli, reported in Cathy Collins Block and Susan E. Israel, Quotes to Inspire Great Reading Teachers (Corwin Press, 2006), p. 78. ISBN 1412914973.
  • The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminal, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

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