Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

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

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.

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.

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

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

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

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 is a product of social excess.

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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 is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

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.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Crooks are early adopters.

Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.

Despotism is a long crime.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex in an alley, that's not a crime. That's a coincidence.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.