Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

The intention makes the crime.

The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation. The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region. Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That's because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate our own crimes, so nobody knows.

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.

The living grave of crime.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

The Monster’s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

The more welfare, the more crime.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.