In 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 DunnRape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda AdlerMan 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.
LucretiusI'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 CurbishleyWhen 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 BalzacIn 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 FisherWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellIn 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 ThompsonEvery murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma GandhiThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinThis the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai StevensonEvery 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 BarnesThe 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 HooverHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward GibbonFor 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 CamusO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandIf 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 HillThe 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 worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainThe 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 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 RossCrime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma GoldmanEx-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsEvery crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel HawthorneCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George FarquharSlums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril ConnollyStatisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P G WodehousePerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil BeatonIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack KerouacHe who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus DarwinThe thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates PercivalIts not a crime to make a mistake, but it is a crime if you dont learn from it.
AnonymousDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia 'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel JohnsonI 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 ByronA 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 PoeTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
Quintus EnniusThe 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 RandDestiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose BierceSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreOutside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion BarryIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainWar should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles E HughesIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg Lichtenberg
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