Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

This heinous crime should be of particular concern to all of us. . . . I know my colleagues will agree that the murder of Americans overseas cannot go unpunished. I will continue to closely follow developments in this case[.]

This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

to teach without zest is a crime.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Vices are not crimes.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

We have come a long way, particularly in terms of women becoming more equal under the law. Fortunately, workplace discrimination is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, sexual harassment is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, the assault of women is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. The list goes on.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.