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Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them.
- LM Montgomery
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
- Aristotle
The crime and violence in the black community is a prime example of the damaging effect of broken families and single female-headed households.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.
- Tony Evans
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
- Pierre Corneille
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
- Pope John Paul II
If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
- Samuel Johnson
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
- E Stanley Jones
Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
- Anonymous
Crime was up, especially among the youth; simple, common trust in one's neighbor was diminishing; never had the town been so full of rumors, scandals, and malicious gossip. In the shadow of fear and suspicion, life here was gradually losing its joy and simplicity, and no one seemed to know why or how.
- Frank Peretti
The robbers jumped into the road and tackled the traveler.
- Frank Peretti