Crime Quotes

Quotations
Quote of the Day | Members | Quote books
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus

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 Stengel

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles E Hughes

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia

Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah More

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
Juvenal

Gun 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 Abbott

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George Farquhar

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg Lichtenberg

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine Dunn

Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard Davids

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Such crimes has superstition caused.
Lucretius

I'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 Curbishley

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil Beaton

I hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui Smith

A 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 Poe

I am not sorry for my crime.
Leon Czolgosz

The 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 Putin

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 Hill

The 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 Rand

As 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 Doyle

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Ken Calvert

A first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre Corneille

'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck Whibley

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James Ellroy

He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus Darwin

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel Boorstin

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly

I 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 Ross

The 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 Trout

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion Barry

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac

The worst crime is faking it.
Kurt Cobain

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda Adler

I, 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 Brown

Every 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 Barnes

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai Stevenson

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates Percival

Destiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
Quintus Ennius

Not failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell Lowell

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'Connell

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De Balzac



  Pick another category
© Know the Web Ltd 2013  |   Help  |   Advertise  |   Links  |  Home  |  Content Management System by: Clarity Media   |   Contact Us

Quotes & Authors

Author Quotes (A - Z) Popular Authors
Funny quotes Celebrity quotes Business quotes Sports quotes Famous quotes Political quotes Inspiring quotes Movie quotes Silly quotes Insurance quotes
Lists Anagrams General Election Quotes Browse Search Literature Quotes Best Quotes Fictional Characters Popular Quotes Favorite Quotes By Event Research Quotes Job / Occupation Keywords Topics Song Lyrics Favourite Celebrity Proverbs Phrase Finder
Puzzle Books