Crime Quotes - page 7

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man. (Albert Camus)
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime, The punishment fit the crime. View quote
W. S. Gilbert
The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes. View quote
Lee De Forest
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime you should dwell. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime. View quote
Publilius Syrus
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. View quote
Thomas Mann
So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime. (Thomas Hobbes)
The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning, or some sudden force of the Passions. Defect in the Understanding, is Ignorance; in Reasoning, Erroneous Opinion. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. View quote
Katherine Dunn
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world. View quote
Helen Keller
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them. View quote
African Spir
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians. View quote
Bobby Fischer
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i. e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood. (Richard Dawkins)
Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good. View quote
Confucius
Suicide is a person's privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime. It's your right if you want to, though it doesn't get you anywhere. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth. View quote
Edgar Degas
Dying is not a crime. View quote
Jack Kevorkian