When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey StengelCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George FarquharActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeWar should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles E HughesThe 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 RandEvery 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 BarnesIn 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 FisherEvery crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
Juvenal'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyThis the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai StevensonCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinA 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 thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates PercivalSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LucretiusRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel JohnsonCrime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma GoldmanMy loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir NabokovHe who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus DarwinThe greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey ClarkThe cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverPoverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus AureliusAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnI am not sorry for my crime.
Leon CzolgoszIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack KerouacThe worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainRape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda AdlerNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellI 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 ByronFor 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 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 JohnsonIn 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 ThompsonHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward GibbonThe 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 PutinBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsPerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil BeatonBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacPoor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneilleOutside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion BarryGun 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 head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinEvery crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel HawthorneStatisticians 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 EngelsI 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 RossSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg Lichtenberg
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