Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

But the good news, the crime rate is down. Isn't that amazing? Less banks are being robbed. Well, sure. A, there's less banks. B, the banks don't have any money left. And C, nobody's got gas money for the getaway car. So, right there, crime is down!

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want to get beyond just speaking to other Middle East scholars, so I'm happy about that. But this was, nonetheless, a novel I wish I got to read in Arabic and translate.

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails.

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

[Clinton's crimes] is well documented, and the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive coverup of widespread criminal activity at the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in order to keep the Clintons in power.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.