Not failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellHe who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus DarwinHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward GibbonThe cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverThe Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Ken CalvertIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainAnybody 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 RossPerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil BeatonTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
Quintus EnniusThe 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 TroutIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg LichtenbergCrime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma GoldmanCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George FarquharEx-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleA 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 PoeWhen 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 BalzacActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeMy 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 Bierce'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyEvery murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma GandhiIf 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 HillI hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui SmithThe 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 JohnsonCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinI am not sorry for my crime.
Leon CzolgoszThe 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 RandAs 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 DoyleO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandPoverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus AureliusA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneilleIn 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 ThompsonThe thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates PercivalBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsGun 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 AbbottThe response to these inhumane crimes wherever they take place - be it London, New York, Moscow or other countries - should be absolute condemnation.
All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.
[on the London terrorist attack, 7th July 2005]
Vladimir PutinEvery crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel HawthorneBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
Friedrich EngelsFor 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 greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey ClarkStatisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P G WodehouseEvery place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]
Michael D BarnesIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack KerouacIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtOutside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion BarryThis the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai StevensonDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia 
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