Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

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 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 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 many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

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.

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

I always felt, you don’t have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

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

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

I decided to be what crime made of me.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm going back to the rules of drama. There are genres that I like as an audience member that I can't write as a writer. I can't write crime, and I like a good thriller as much as anybody.

I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.