Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, 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 persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

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

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 crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

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

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