The worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainEvery murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma GandhiA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneilleA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TacitusWhen 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 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 PutinActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeI'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 CurbishleySlums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril ConnollyI 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 PoeEvery crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
JuvenalThe 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 greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey ClarkGun 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 AbbottIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg LichtenbergDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia Man 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 ShelleyIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtI, 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 BrownOutside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion BarryFor 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 CamusSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreIf 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 HillIn 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 Fisher'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyThe 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 TroutNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellAs 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 cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LucretiusHe 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 RossBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsDestiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose BierceHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward GibbonEvery 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 BarnesPoor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanI hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui SmithAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainRape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda AdlerTo 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 RandCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordWhen 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 am not sorry for my crime.
Leon CzolgoszCrime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma GoldmanPerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil BeatonCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George Farquhar
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