Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George FarquharI'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 CurbishleyBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsThe thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates PercivalIn 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 FisherI am not sorry for my crime.
Leon CzolgoszI hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui SmithThe world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel BoorstinA 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 PoeO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandPerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil BeatonGrowing 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 ByronIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellOutside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion BarryPoor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanThe worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacThe Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Ken CalvertThe 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 PutinA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TacitusA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneilleThe 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 RandWhen 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 StengelStatisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P G WodehouseRape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda AdlerNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell Lowell'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnIn 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 greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey ClarkActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeHe who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus DarwinI 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 RossEvery crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel HawthorneIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg LichtenbergIts not a crime to make a mistake, but it is a crime if you dont learn from it.
AnonymousThe 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 TroutDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia If 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 HillFor 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 CamusWhen 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 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 BrownMan 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 ShelleySuch crimes has superstition caused.
LucretiusIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack KerouacGun 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.
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