Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
Diane AbbottIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg LichtenbergGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneilleHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward GibbonNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellPoverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus AureliusI hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui SmithFor centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert CamusThe worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainHe who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus DarwinI'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.
Alan CurbishleyWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtThe mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
Boris JohnsonThis the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai StevensonI, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood (on the day of his execution, 1859)
John BrownThe thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates PercivalThe world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel BoorstinStatisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P G WodehouseSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
Friedrich EngelsO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandThe greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey ClarkA strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan PoePoor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanIf you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real - what's fact- what's fantasy and so on.
Betty HillEvery crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel HawthorneThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinAs a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Sir Arthur Conan DoylePerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil BeatonMan has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George FarquharAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyI have enjoyed presenting Crimewatch but I felt that it was time for me to leave the show [on leaving before he was kicked out by the BBC]
Nick RossThe britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
Robert TroutMy loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir NabokovDestiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose BierceEvery murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma GandhiActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeSlums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril ConnollyIn a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Geoffrey FisherIts not a crime to make a mistake, but it is a crime if you dont learn from it.
AnonymousWhen women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore De BalzacThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn RandRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel JohnsonI should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord ByronIn a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S Thompson
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