Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

to teach without zest is a crime.

Vices are not crimes.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

We have come a long way, particularly in terms of women becoming more equal under the law. Fortunately, workplace discrimination is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, sexual harassment is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, the assault of women is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. The list goes on.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and murdered by Islamic fanatics, accused of exactly the same things that I was, these medieval crimes of apostasy And heresy, but then broadening from that into a broader attack on all of us.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.

We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.