Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

I decided to be what crime made of me.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.

I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm going back to the rules of drama. There are genres that I like as an audience member that I can't write as a writer. I can't write crime, and I like a good thriller as much as anybody.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.

If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.