Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation. The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region. Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That's because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

The intention makes the crime.

The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate our own crimes, so nobody knows.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

The living grave of crime.

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

The Monster’s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

The more welfare, the more crime.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, while the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.