Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of the UN Charter, or violation of the Genocide Convention, these are things the US is exempt from, because they exempted themselves from being subjected to international treaties in World Court proceedings.

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

This heinous crime should be of particular concern to all of us. . . . I know my colleagues will agree that the murder of Americans overseas cannot go unpunished. I will continue to closely follow developments in this case[.]

This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later.

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

to teach without zest is a crime.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Vices are not crimes.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.