Crime Quotes
2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors
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If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not…
— Peggy Noonan
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A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
— Joseph Addison
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There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had…
— Paul Collier
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I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think…
— John Brown
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Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or…
— Pete Domenici
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On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or…
— Charles Barkley
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Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and…
— William Graham Sumner
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Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
— William Shawcross
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The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
— Robert Browning
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I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order…
— Daniel Dennett
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Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
— Ayn Rand
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless…
— Emma Goldman
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For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it…
— John Calvin
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Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands...…
— Milton Friedman
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The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices…
— Thomas Sowell
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area…
— Thomas Sowell
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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because…
— Honore de Balzac
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The Monster’s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.
— Douglas Preston
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Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.
— Tony Benn
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Crime is a product of a distorted mind.
— Kiran Bedi
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The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does…
— Byron White
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The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all of its sickening crimes is…
— Steven Morrissey
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