Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

Despotism is a long crime.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex in an alley, that's not a crime. That's a coincidence.

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

Dying is not a crime.

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun - not to kill someone, but to stop a crime.

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

Everything is mediated. Everything is influenced by its maker. And happily, right? I'm so happy everyone leaves fingerprints on things whether they like it or not. Fingerprints solve crimes. They're profound. They're your best and worst friend and you were born with them and you can't get away from them without a lot of pain and sandpaper.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

From a single crime know the nation.

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes." But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.