Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

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

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

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.

to teach without zest is a crime.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Vices are not crimes.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

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

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 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.

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

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

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 have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and murdered by Islamic fanatics, accused of exactly the same things that I was, these medieval crimes of apostasy And heresy, but then broadening from that into a broader attack on all of us.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.