Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can get. But, the fact that the government facilitated the invention of evidence in order to convict someone of a capital crime, that is something that should concern everybody.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

Police do get obsessed with solving crimes. You know, particularly if there's been a murder, it becomes personal for the police officer very quickly, and it gets to the family. Even after they've retired, they carry on, not letting go.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Punishment follows close on crime.

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

Responsibility prevents crimes.

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

Round up and deport two million aliens who committed crimes.

Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.