Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Everything is mediated. Everything is influenced by its maker. And happily, right? I'm so happy everyone leaves fingerprints on things whether they like it or not. Fingerprints solve crimes. They're profound. They're your best and worst friend and you were born with them and you can't get away from them without a lot of pain and sandpaper.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

From a single crime know the nation.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes." But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel.

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.