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Petty laws breed great crimes.

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Ouida
English - Novelist
January 1, 1839 - January 25, 1908

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

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Jonathan Greenblatt

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

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Voltaire

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Henry David Thoreau

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

Chesty Puller

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Cesare Beccaria

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Thomas Jefferson

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Carl von Clausewitz

Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

Jean Racine

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