Famous quotes containing the words fact and/or crime:
“They [creative children] ask more questions than most children. Theyre usually spontaneous and enthusiastic. Their ideas are unique and occasionally strike other kids as weird. Theyre independent. Not that they dont care at all what other kids think, but theyre able to do their thing despite the fact that their peers may think its strange. And they have lots and lots of ideas.”
—Silvia Rimm (20th century)
“Each mans private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (18791944)