Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and can even understand some forms of property crime.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer. I didn't care that we were out in public. I didn't care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime.  They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'.  Well, that doesn't do anything.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

Let's stop the drugs and the crime from pouring into our country.

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Let's not hate ourselves.  We are all we have.  We cannot change anything until we accept that.  I cannot do this alone.  I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain.  I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in.  I have had enough.

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.