Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

Responsibility prevents crimes.

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

Round up and deport two million aliens who committed crimes.

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

So this ["Grant MacLaren"] was a chance to sort of go back and do a more leading man. But instead of just solving crimes like a CSI show, this leading man is, like the other travelers, not who he appears.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Stupidity is not a crime.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

Targets don't fight crime.

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime.

The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime