Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

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.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.