Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether torture is acceptable or whether it works. It should be simply seen as a war crime. There's no other position on torture.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we do it, it's not. And more generally, it's the defeated who are tried, not the victors.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

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

The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 great thieves lead away the little thief.

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 greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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

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

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

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

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

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 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.