Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bess Myerson

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Bernard Beckett

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

Ambrose Bierce

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Ambrose Bierce

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Mason Cooley

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

Nicolas Chamfort

She commands who is blest with indifference.

James A. Baldwin

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

Frederick Buechner

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

Ian Fleming

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

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.

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.

David Harris

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

Charles Grassley

The real crime here is the Clinton-Gore record on drugs. He should explain why, during the Clinton-Gore administration, the number of teenagers using drugs nearly doubled.

Mohammed Hussain

We used to have more officers there and crime was really downnow you see no one.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Jennifer Martin

This was not a drug deal. That defendant wanted money. And this was a crime of opportunity.

Eion Bailey

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.