Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

So this ["Grant MacLaren"] was a chance to sort of go back and do a more leading man. But instead of just solving crimes like a CSI show, this leading man is, like the other travelers, not who he appears.

Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Stupidity is not a crime.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

Such crimes has superstition caused.

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

Targets don't fight crime.

That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether torture is acceptable or whether it works. It should be simply seen as a war crime. There's no other position on torture.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.

The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we do it, it's not. And more generally, it's the defeated who are tried, not the victors.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.