Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

Importance of technology is increasing every day, we must not deprive our children of technology, if we do then it's a social crime.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

I'm responding to the will of the people.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

In New Zealand, sex workers are regarded as workers, as people who are members of the community, people who have a stake in the community - not just in the workplace, but in the broader community. They aren't objects to be controlled and regulated. They are not collateral evidence of a crime. They are human beings.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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