Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion… — Arthur Koestler
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and… — Lysander Spooner
Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has been an undertone… — Barack Obama
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. — Abdul Kalam
Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge. — Jurgen Habermas
Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it. — Craig Reucassel
The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have… — Michael K. Simpson
The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization,… — John Bruton
A friend to honesty and a foe to crime — Allan Pinkerton
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get. — Subhas Chandra Bose
For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and… — Frederick Douglass
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. — George Farquhar
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented… — Henry Highland Garnet
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution.… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter… — James T. Rapier
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering… — Seneca the Younger
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no… — Theodore Dwight Weld
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects… — John D. Rockefeller
Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see… — P. W. Singer
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman… — Susan B. Anthony
Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and… — John F. Kerry
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is… — Charles Eliot Norton
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. — Charles Evans Hughes
Only the winners decide what were war crimes. — Garry Wills

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