Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordWhen 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 BalzacIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg LichtenbergThe worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainWar should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles E HughesCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George FarquharDestiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose BierceThe 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 TroutO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LucretiusI 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 ByronDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
Friedrich EngelsRape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda AdlerIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtI 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 RossCrime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma GoldmanFor 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 CamusThis the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai StevensonThe greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey ClarkPoor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanThe cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinIn 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 ThompsonGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinGun 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 AbbottBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellA 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 PoeThe 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 Putin'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyPerhaps 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 EnniusIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack KerouacEx-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel JohnsonSlums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril ConnollyEvery murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma GandhiIts not a crime to make a mistake, but it is a crime if you dont learn from it.
AnonymousIf 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 HillThe Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Ken CalvertSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreEvery crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
JuvenalAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyOutside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion BarryStatisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P G WodehouseHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
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