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 HillAs 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 DoyleThe Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Ken CalvertIn 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'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 CurbishleyThe thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates PercivalIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtSlums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyEvery crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
JuvenalI am not sorry for my crime.
Leon CzolgoszA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TacitusCrime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma GoldmanRape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda AdlerCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordHe who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus DarwinIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack KerouacDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia For 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 head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinPerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil BeatonEvery murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma GandhiI 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 RossIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg LichtenbergI hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui SmithEvery crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel HawthorneThe 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 PutinEvery 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 BarnesWhen 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 StengelThe world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel BoorstinGun 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 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 TroutStatisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P G WodehouseBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsThe worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandThe 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 RandNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellPoor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanI 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 ByronEx-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneilleAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnPoverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus AureliusSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
Friedrich EngelsThe 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 JohnsonWar should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles E HughesGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinWhen 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 Balzac
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