Crime Quotes
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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.
Honore de Balzac
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.
Tom Cruise
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Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
Plato
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As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country.
Geert Wilders
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
Wole Soyinka
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The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
Elsa Barker
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It appears there is a very significant crime problem on most of the reservations that we are aware of. I am concerned that it might be escalating within the last couple of years.
Chris Chaney Jane's Addiction
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Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
William Shawcross
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I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
William Bennett
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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.
George Washington
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
Albert Camus
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
Seneca the Younger
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From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.
Hugo Black
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There is no greater crime than desire.
Lao Tzu
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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Josephus Daniels
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The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.
Mike Simpson
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Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.
Charles A. Murray
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As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.
John Ruskin
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If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
William Shakespeare
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Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand