Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

From a single crime know the nation.

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes." But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free the victims and stop this increasingly aggressive crime which threatens not only individuals but the basic values of society.

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

I always felt, you don’t have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

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

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 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.