Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.

As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

But the good news, the crime rate is down. Isn't that amazing? Less banks are being robbed. Well, sure. A, there's less banks. B, the banks don't have any money left. And C, nobody's got gas money for the getaway car. So, right there, crime is down!

Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want to get beyond just speaking to other Middle East scholars, so I'm happy about that. But this was, nonetheless, a novel I wish I got to read in Arabic and translate.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails.

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.

[Clinton's crimes] is well documented, and the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive coverup of widespread criminal activity at the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in order to keep the Clintons in power.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.