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“Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.”

Stories Happens Lying Interest Crime

Author:William Landay

“Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.”

Life Wells Has Beens Lying Evil Lost Deals Company Careers Plans Crime Chosen Reputation Fallen Damage Gossip Idle Ruined Vicious Rumor Slander Devastated Malicious Idle Gossip Ruined Life

Author:Wayne D. Dosick

“History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.”

Children Done Lying Sex Wife Doors Crime Husband Murder Males Abortion Robbery Infanticide

Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage

“The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.”

Ifs Men Giving Doe Lying Sin Crime Example Draws Faults

Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

“Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.”

Children Lying Numbers Crime Advantage Definitions Painful Impression Temptation Length Suspects Dread Terrified Threatened Variation Liable Untruth

Book:The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt

Source: The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt

“If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.”

People Ifs Want Wells Persons Lying Known Crime Citizens Politician Twenties Prison Committed Well Known Disrespectful

Author:Giulio Andreotti

“I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.”

Knows Men Eye Lying Crime Murder Victim Guilt Deny Witness Absolution Accusers

Book:The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)

Source: The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)

“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”

“Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.”

Age Lying Knowing Crime Commit Thirty Never Trust Never Trust A Woman

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.”

People Thinking May Together Lying Secret Novel Crime Calamity Keeping Secrets Crime Novels

Author:Alafair Burke