Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.

I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is nothing taken away from it and crime is very low and all that.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.

It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and can even understand some forms of property crime.