Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinEx-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleEvery murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma GandhiThe world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel BoorstinGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinI 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 ByronMan 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 ShelleyAs 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 DoyleIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtWhen 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 StengelPerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil BeatonI'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 CurbishleyA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TacitusIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainFor 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 CamusWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LucretiusThe 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 Trout'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyThe worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyThe thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates PercivalStatisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P G WodehouseActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg LichtenbergAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
Friedrich EngelsTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
Quintus EnniusCrime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma GoldmanThe 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 StevensonA 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 PoeNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel JohnsonIn 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 FisherSlums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril ConnollyHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward GibbonDestiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose BierceThe 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 RandI am not sorry for my crime.
Leon CzolgoszHe who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus DarwinOutside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion BarryPoverty 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 SmithO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack KerouacEvery crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
JuvenalDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
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