Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BC
Archive
Quotes
You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.
—Karl Kraus, 1909As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbEvery country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverb