Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

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.

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

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

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

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

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

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.

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

From a single crime know the nation.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

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

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

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

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

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

Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free the victims and stop this increasingly aggressive crime which threatens not only individuals but the basic values of society.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.