Quotes About Committing Crimes

#1. For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes. - Author: Cesare Beccaria

#2. How often do police accidentally shoot and kill bankers who are committing financial crimes, stealing homes, and plunging the nation into economic instability and recession? - Author: Ralph Nader

#3. The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England. - Author: Ian McLagan

#4. How the Germans can remain allies with the Turks is beyond me. No European nation would ever commit the sorts of crimes that this regime is blithely committing right now. - Author: Chris Bohjalian

#5. How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes? - Author: M.F. Moonzajer

#6. The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature. - Author: Daphne Zuniga

#7. In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away. - Author: Frank Abagnale

#8. For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on. - Author: Flea

#9. Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Quentin Sollys: the Once and Future King of Spiders. - Author: Seanan McGuire

#11. Not much was said of Gaberone except its riches and its danger. The prisons were said to be in-escapable, the shanty towns cheap, the police didn't bother the illegal immigrants unless they were caught committing crimes. A dangerous paradise. - Author: Thabo Katlholo

#12. By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress. - Author: Ann Coulter

#13. Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. - Author: Lauryn Hill

#14. You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty. - Author: Matt Taibbi

#15. My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road. - Author: Ice-T

#16. Justice can help reduce sexual violence: bringing to justice those soldiers responsible for sexual violence discourages other soldiers from committing such crimes. - Author: Augustin Matata Ponyo

#17. Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis. - Author: Bianca Jagger

#18. A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable. - Author: Edward McKendree Bounds

#19. I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me. - Author: Sophie Morgan

#20. Do you know how,
sometimes, when you first wake up,
your pulse is so thorough, so slow,
that you, and the one who is with you,
and the room, and the opening light all seem to swell
and subside and swell inside your heart? - Author: Jennifer Clarvoe

#21. I grew up in Montana, where an old, unregistered rifle was worth a lot more than a new gun whose ownership could be traced. Not that the gun owners in Montana are planning on committing crimes with their unregistered guns - they just don't like the federal government knowing their every move. - Author: Patricia Briggs

#22. I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committing crimes and then getting on with their lives. What is really needed for public officials who shame themselves is ritual suicide. - Author: George Carlin

#23. If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then men will face no stronger deterrent from committing the greater crime if they find it in their advantage to do so. - Author: Cesare Beccaria

#24. My name is John Taylor. I'm a private eye, specialising in cases of the weird and uncanny. I don't solve murders, I don't do divorce work, and I wouldn't recognise a clue if you held it up before my face and said Look, this is a clue. - Author: Simon R. Green

#25. Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#26. We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. - Author: George Wald

#27. If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them. - Author: Joe Arpaio

#28. The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category - except for the category of familiarity. - Author: Noam Chomsky

#29. The man who tells you nothing frightens him is whistling in the dark. Besides, fear is not necessarily bad. It may guard you from harm. And I suspect that fear of being caught, punished and disgraced keeps many more of us from committing crimes than does the voice of conscience'. - Author: Victoria Clayton

#30. I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did. - Author: Joe Eszterhas

#31. Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds. - Author: Uri Orbach

#32. Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. - Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld