All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Crime”

“Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.”
“The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.”
“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.”
“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”
“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.”
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
“The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.”
“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.”
“We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.”
“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 and mole.”
“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.”
“The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.”
“Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.”

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