Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre  s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.

Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?

And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.