Crime Quotes

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

to teach without zest is a crime.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

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

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

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

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

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

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we do it, it's not. And more generally, it's the defeated who are tried, not the victors.

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.