The greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey ClarkPoor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanEx-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreThe worst crime is faking it.
Kurt CobainHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward GibbonWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellThe 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 RandOutside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion BarryAs 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 DoyleIn 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 AdlerI 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 ByronPoverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus AureliusNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellFor 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 CamusDestiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose BierceO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
Mme RolandBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacHe who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus DarwinThe Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Ken CalvertSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LucretiusThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainEvery crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
JuvenalGun 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 TroutA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TacitusIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack KerouacEvery crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel HawthorneA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneilleBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsI 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 LichtenbergIn 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 FisherWar should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles E HughesThe cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverI, 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'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyThe thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates PercivalMan 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 ShelleyCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George FarquharAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinThe world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel BoorstinI hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui SmithActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeWhen 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 BalzacPerhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil Beaton
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