Crime Quotes
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Knowing what Christ knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.
Albert Camus
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For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
Cesare Beccaria
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The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.
George Takei
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Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used those? That’s a crime against humanity right there.
Carrie Jones
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Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
George Pelecanos
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The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Eric Weiner
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Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
Mahatma Gandhi
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We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
Adrian G. Duplantier
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Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.
George Washington
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Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.
Elliott Colla
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If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
Carrie P. Meek
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Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.
Tom Hayden
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I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.
Rob Zombie
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.
Brian Andreas
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Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
Joseph Sobran
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Tacitus
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Being afraid of Islam is no doubt moronic, absurd, and plenty of other things as well, but it’s not a crime.
Stéphane Charbonnier
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I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
Karl Lagerfeld
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People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.
Sarah Koenig
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Transnational organized crime does not recognize any borders.
Patricia Espinosa
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It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
Bill Vaughan