Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnThe 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.
Jack KerouacAs 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 DoyleSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreWar should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles E HughesIts not a crime to make a mistake, but it is a crime if you dont learn from it.
AnonymousTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
Quintus EnniusCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacI, 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 BrownEvery murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma GandhiAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyEx-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LucretiusActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeI hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui SmithThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg LichtenbergThe 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 RandThe 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 JohnsonRape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda AdlerNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward GibbonDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel HawthorneOutside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion BarryBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsMan 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 ShelleyA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneilleWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'Connell'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyI am not sorry for my crime.
Leon CzolgoszThe cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverGun 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 AbbottThis the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai StevensonA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TacitusI 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 RossA 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 PoeFor 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 CamusIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
Friedrich EngelsI 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 ByronO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandIn 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 ThompsonPoverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus AureliusEvery crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
JuvenalMy loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
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