Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

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

If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

If you are a Morocco citizen with a dual nationality, if you commit a crime in Morocco you are stripped Moroccan nationality and send to our own country. We can learn from them in that respect.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them.

If you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.

[Illegal immigrants] they`re bringing drugs. They`re bringing crime. They`re rapists.Somebody is doing the raping. Somebody is doing it. There`s women being raped. Well, who is doing the raping? Who is doing the raping?

Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.