Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Police do get obsessed with solving crimes. You know, particularly if there's been a murder, it becomes personal for the police officer very quickly, and it gets to the family. Even after they've retired, they carry on, not letting go.

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

Punishment follows close on crime.

Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

Responsibility prevents crimes.

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

Round up and deport two million aliens who committed crimes.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.