Crime Quote by Alan Dershowitz

“There is an ancient rule: actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea -- the act does not create guilt unless the mind is…

— William Landay

“In court, the thing we punish is the criminal intention. -the mens rea, the guilty mind. There is an ancient rule: actus non facit…

— William Landay

“A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?”

— George Gordon Byron

“I write that crime is an unlawful act of violence that can be committed by anyone, and that punishment is the consequence designed for…

— Mahbod Seraji

“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been…

— Alexandre Dumas

“men are guilty of the greatest crimes from ambition, and not from necessity,”

— Aristotle

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are…

— Jack Kevorkian

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

— Mark Frost

“Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.”

— Christina Stead

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

— Clarence Darrow

“Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.”

— Émile Durkheim