Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

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

We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how corrupt and intrusive the American government has become - how willing it is to engage in vast crimes against the American public.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.