Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how corrupt and intrusive the American government has become - how willing it is to engage in vast crimes against the American public.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

Where there is no compassion, crime increases.

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.

You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.

You have to be patient. Litigants are emotionally involved - they're suing or being sued, or they've been in an accident or they're charged (with a crime). They are not very objective about their situation.

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder.

You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?

A brisk wind spiralled down Camden street kicking up debris, causing Jerry Morgan to retreat further into the doorway of Larkins the Bookmaker. He covered the flame from his lighter with his chapped hand. Inhaled and coughed, a deep rasp, the sort of chesty wheeze that came from forty years of smoking his first drag at thirteen years old.

About a year ago, an entire suburb in this man’s jurisdiction turned from the police and erected a substitute agency. To all intents and purposes, several thousand people here have severed their relationship with the South African Police Service. He appears not to have noticed.

A criminal mind needs consideration rather than the criminal itself. In truth, there are more criminals than those who committed a crime.

Accountability in police can best be done in an assembly where everyone concerned will come and share their views and opinion to the activities of the police because there's a whole lot of excesses in the police force that must be corrected for effective policing and better society's trust on them.

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.