Crime Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

The intention makes the crime.

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

I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate.

The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, while the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

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.

Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

A first impulse was never a crime.

C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada.

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

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

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

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig! Put him on a spit and put an apple in his mouth!"

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.