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 StengelFor 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 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 TroutWhen 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 BalzacBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George FarquharO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandA 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 PoeDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
Juvenal'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyThe greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey ClarkSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
Friedrich EngelsThe 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 PutinI 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 ByronOutside 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 AbbottIn 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 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 RandGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinThe 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 CalvertThis the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai StevensonEx-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleI, 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 BrownTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
Quintus EnniusIf 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 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 RossMy loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir NabokovEvery 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 BarnesMan 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 ShelleyIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainThe worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainPoverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus AureliusCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordRape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda AdlerI am not sorry for my crime.
Leon CzolgoszA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneillePerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil BeatonAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel JohnsonActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TacitusBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack KerouacPoor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanSlums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril ConnollyWar should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
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