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Jane Austen477
English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
“The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“… but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Incantation
“His worst crime was that he gave no hope to the young.”
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
The Corrupt Presidency, p. 273 (See also: Richard M. Nixon..)
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“Some of the worst crimes against humanity are committed by architecture students.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 1, “Random Ramona” (p. 18)
“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.”
Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) American Labor Leader[AFL]
Quoted in Rothschild, Michael. Bionomics: Economy as Business Ecosystem. Washington, D.C.: BeardBooks, 1990, p. 115.
“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“A Government with Heart to protect victims of corruption, crime, and abuse.”
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate
