Its not a crime to make a mistake, but it is a crime if you dont learn from it.
AnonymousIn 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 FisherActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeEvery crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
JuvenalThe 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 PutinIn 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 ThompsonAs 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 DoyleA shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TacitusEvery crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel HawthorneI 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 AureliusTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
Quintus EnniusThe 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 JohnsonBase stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard DavidsThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlinAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine DunnSmall habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah MoreWhoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'ConnellThe world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel BoorstinNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel JohnsonIn a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles SturtIf we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter HainHe who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus DarwinWhen 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 BalzacHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward GibbonWhen 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 StengelA first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre CorneilleDespite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma GoldmanI 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 RossCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyDestiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose BierceSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
Friedrich EngelsEx-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThis the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai StevensonThe 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 RandWar should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles E HughesCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George FarquharBehind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De BalzacThe greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey ClarkSuch crimes has superstition caused.
Lucretius'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck WhibleyThe 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 GandhiSlums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril ConnollyI am not sorry for my crime.
Leon CzolgoszMy loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
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