Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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 read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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 the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

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

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 never be a crime to be gay.

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

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].

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.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

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