Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

No crime has been without a precedent.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

Obamacare is a crime against democracy.

Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can get. But, the fact that the government facilitated the invention of evidence in order to convict someone of a capital crime, that is something that should concern everybody.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

Police do get obsessed with solving crimes. You know, particularly if there's been a murder, it becomes personal for the police officer very quickly, and it gets to the family. Even after they've retired, they carry on, not letting go.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

Punishment follows close on crime.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.