Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance… — Thomas Jefferson
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime. — Dan Barker
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go… — Seneca the Younger
I've never struggled with that at all. In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children,… — Rick Perry
Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge! — Adolf Hitler
You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons… — Martin Dempsey
The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if… — Leon Panetta
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it… — Richard Jeni
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime,… — Tommy Douglas
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too — Sigmund Freud
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and… — John Desmond Bernal
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this… — Rajneesh
A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of it. That… — Rajneesh
Remorse is the fruit of crime. — Juvenal
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. — George Henry Borrow
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared… — Thomas Paine
I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty… — John Philpot Curran
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen. — Quintus Ennius
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken

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