Quote by Jean Racine

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Summary

This quote suggests that small criminal acts or transgressions tend to pave the way for more significant and serious offenses. It implies that individuals who engage in minor misdemeanors or illegal activities may gradually become more comfortable with breaching larger rules or engaging in major acts of wrongdoing. It highlights the concept of a slippery slope, where individuals initially committing small crimes are more likely to progress towards committing more severe crimes over time. In essence, the quote implies a correlation between the magnitude of unlawful acts and the progression from small to significant offenses.

Topics

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

She was so fat that when guys have sex with her they ask for

She was so fat that when guys have sex with her they ask for directions.

Rodney Dangerfield

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for o

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

Wendell Willkie

Courtship -- A man pursuing a woman until she catches him.

Courtship -- A man pursuing a woman until she catches him.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an ep

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Madame de Stael

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you hav

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull withou

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it.

What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a

What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope,

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

Elizabeth Edwards