Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
Bob Hope

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
Jerry Garcia

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
Tony Blair

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
Abdul Kalam

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Arthur Conan Doyle

He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crime has to be concealed by another.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Emile M. Cioran

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emile M. Cioran

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
Michel de Montaigne

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Mikhail Bakunin