Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is nothing taken away from it and crime is very low and all that.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

It should never be a crime to be gay.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and can even understand some forms of property crime.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer. I didn't care that we were out in public. I didn't care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime.  They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'.  Well, that doesn't do anything.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.