Top 100 Quotes About A Crime
#1. All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime
Oscar Wilde
#2. Nowadays we are fond of literal translations ... That would have seemed a crime to translators in ages past ... They wanted to prove that the vernacular was as capable of a great poem as the original.
Jorge Luis Borges
#3. If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime
Bob Dylan
#4. Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.
Annie Jacobsen
#6. The taste of good coffee, so deep and complex that it was almost a crime to describe it by a single name. The sound of rain falling on the pavement, the smell of petrichor and moistened loam. The color of a single raven's feather in the sunlight, rainbows caught in ebony - ==========
Anonymous
#7. To hate another person is wrong. It is never right. Hate is a crime of the spirit that leads to crimes of the flesh.
Patricia Cornwell
#8. Succinctly put, a crime scene is like an archaeology site. If an excavation is botched or bulldozed away, there's no going back.
Patricia Cornwell
#9. Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
Linda Tripp
#10. Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.
Gilbert Gottfried
#12. We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.
Nelson Mandela
#13. Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos
#14. This is not love. It is a crime ... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.
Salma Hayek
#15. If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.
Cormega
#16. Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.
Eric Weiner
#17. The angel told her, An honest man who committed a crime, you have no idea how many honest men have committed crimes, their crimes are countless, and contrary to popular belief these are the only crimes that cannot be forgiven.
Jose Saramago
#18. Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
Michael Ramsey
#19. The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
Mark Steyn
#20. I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.
Dev Hynes
#21. If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
#23. I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.
Jo Nesbo
#24. I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
Michael Bay
#25. If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?
Robert Breault
#27. What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
Joe Abercrombie
#28. Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business.
Peter Dickinson
#29. If utilizing technology is not a crime then why there is prohibition on use of calculators in exams?
Srinivas Shenoy
#30. I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.
Charles Stross
#31. Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
Edward Snowden
#32. 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 knows of one which has been committed.
Alexandre Dumas
#33. Only 3 percent of rapists are ever imprisoned - that's a crime we aren't talking about.
Anonymous
#34. People ask me questions like, "Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you're like when you walk down the street?" It's like, "Of course not." It's such a silly question - it's like being theatrical is a crime.
Bjork
#35. If you wish to tell me what crime I have committed, explain to me in what a crime consists. For as my conscience does not accuse me, I aver that I am not a criminal.
Alexandre Dumas
#36. The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
Mark Twain
#37. If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#38. New York City park bathrooms feel like a crime scene. You are always expecting to see yellow police tape and a chalk-outlined body.
Jim Gaffigan
#40. If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.
C.S. Lewis
#41. After me there are no more jazz singers ... It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
Betty Carter
#42. Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
Paul Watson
#44. Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.
Orit Gadiesh
#45. If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.
Jed S. Rakoff
#47. Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime ... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.
Inez Milholland
#48. In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?
Woody Allen
#51. Falling in love is not a crime but child abduction is
Ian Lomax
#52. I guess not being 'just like them' is a crime.
Lisa De Jong
#53. Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
Pope John Paul II
#54. There is a saying that only the man who has already committed a crime and repented of it is incapable of that crime; to be free of an erroneous opinion, I myself might add, one must at some time have professed it.
Jorge Luis Borges
#55. They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for which there is no pardon. She had struck a white man. She had not killed him, however. In her clumsy rage she had only managed to gash his shoulder
Maryse Conde
#56. In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'
Robin Williams
#57. If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?
Melvin Glover
#58. It's a crime to be that hot and yet, that evil.
E.C. Newman
#59. I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
Kamala Harris
#60. When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
Robert Fisk
#61. And that is a crime I would gladly commit every day for the rest of my days," he said "Punish me how you will. I love her.
Jillian Peery
#62. Together, whether we are pro-life or pro-choice, Democrat or Republican," says Chai, "we can all agree that the systemic elimination of girls simply because they're girls is a crime that has to be stopped.
Marian V. Liautaud
#63. Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.
Simone Weil
#64. Sin, sin! To rid myself of boredom by committing a crime, to break up monotony by deceiving. To sin in order to be a new person, another person. To hate life worse than it hated me. To sin so as not to die.
Henri Barbusse
#65. The attempt to justify and rationalize the death of a whole nation, including women, children, the old and infirm, must itself be considered a crime against humanity.
Taner Akcam
#66. Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Ralph Nader
#67. The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be that stabbin Dilbert guy.
Scott Adams
#68. Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.
Stefan Zweig
#69. Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.
Philip Schultz
#70. Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?
Jodi Picoult
#71. Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime.
Henry Lee Lucas
#72. You have another choice, though," Prince Baelor said quietly. "Whether it is a better choice or a worse one, I cannot say, but I remind you that any knight accused of a crime has the right to demand trial by combat. So I ask you once again, Ser Duncan the Tall - how good a knight are you? Truly?
George R R Martin
#73. My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read ... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.
Ann Cleeves
#74. Being afraid of Islam is no doubt moronic, absurd, and plenty of other things as well, but it's not a crime.
Charb
#75. We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.
Ken Bruen
#76. Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?
Simone Elkeles
#77. To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege.
Emil M. Cioran
#78. Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.
Bernhard Goetz
#80. This is not a game, you horrible man,' Mr. Poe said. 'Dominos is a game. Water polo is a game. Murder is a crime, and you will go to jail for it. I will drive you to the police station in town right this very minute.
Lemony Snicket
#81. Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
Orson Scott Card
#82. And you send people to jails. When they enter, they are amateur; when they come out, they have graduated from the university. All that your laws and your jails teach the criminals is one thing: that committing a crime is not a crime, but being caught is a crime.
Osho
#84. Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
Kamala Harris
#85. If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
Belle Boyd
#86. Rape is a crime of violence and sex is the weapon.
Janet Bode
#87. Oh shit. Was someone about to break into the place he'd broken into first? Fuckers. Didn't they know that breaking and entering was a crime?
Cari Quinn
#88. I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.
Mordechai Vanunu
#90. I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.
James Cash Penney
#91. The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.
Edgar Degas
#92. The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.
Emil Fackenheim
#93. In a train ... smash. In his arm her last ... breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?
Janet Fitch
#94. There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.
Jack Kevorkian
#95. The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.
Yoshida Kenko
#96. Our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime.
Stephen Baxter
#97. Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.
Hillary Clinton
#98. The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I miss appointments without it.
Brian Andreas
#99. The way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.
Louis L'Amour
#100. The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.
David Rumelhart
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