Crime Quotations | Page 6

What is the crime of robbing a bank compared with the crime of founding one.

We'll stipulate her feet were stepped on or maybe it was caused by sliding under the car. A crime where an individual is executed through the head with a .380 caliber bullet, it shouldn't be a surprise that there's injuries to the body.

Well the ten commandments is not the law of the land obviously if one covets they are not committing a crime under Indiana law.

Well, the thing that is important to understand in all of this is that it's not a crime that was committed against my wife or me - it was a crime against the country.

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

The expertise offered by John Jay College in this area is proving very valuable to us. The analysis and validation of international crime statistics from our member countries helps us to ensure that this material is of high quality, reliable and useful.

The facts of the case justify Mr. Ashworth's execution, ... There has been nothing that occurred since the day of the crime to change the facts of the case or the law.

The fact that someone has been charged with a crime is significant. It is also public information.

The fact that this happened to a newspaper that is not doing any investigative reporting into organized crime and drug trafficking ... shows how critical the situation has become.

The crime he did was just brutal and horrible and wicked and all those things. Plus, he had three prior felonies.

The crime is a misdemeanor in itself and it has to be obviously be committed in the officer's presence.

The crime is definitely on the increase and it shows no sign of stopping. It's a frightening thing.

The crime lab lost about $1.3 million in equipment and assets. The evidence vault did take on water. (The evidence) all has been recovered.

The crime levels in the country have grown scandalously. It is a concern that was in second place among Mexicans, but is now the number one worry again,

The crime today is without doubt an attempt to destabilize the situation on the eve of parliamentary elections,

The crime was horrible. Everyone in the town is curious about what happened.

The crime was not reported until Tuesday when the victim/girlfriend was able to escape her attacker and seek medical treatment. The victim was shot in two fingers on her left hand as she lay in bed. The bullet hit her hand, which was by her head at the time.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. Theres even reverence to a screenplay.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

Crooks are early adopters.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness.

What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say 'This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can.'

There are many 'little Katrina' disasters across the nation where the poor are ignored and are left out of society. Society deems poverty a stigma but those trapped in poverty don't have choices. They cannot move out of the whirlpool of poor education, poor employment opportunities and prevalence of crime in their neighborhoods.

The only serious crime I have ever committed in free society was bank robbery during the time I was a fugitive.

When lawmakers seek to rewrite our Fourth Amendment rights, they should at least have the gumption to do so in public. Americans have a reasonable expectation that their federal government will not gather records about their health, their wealth and the transactions of their daily life without probable cause of a crime and without a court order.

We asked to continue interviews outside of prisons. We are not talking about criminals. We haven't been told how much more time we will be given.

We congratulate the Turkish and Moroccan authorities and the FBI for finding and apprehending the alleged distributors of the Zotob and Rbot (Mytob) worms so quickly. These arrests demonstrate the value of public-private collaboration ? the first-class investigative work by the authorities and ?round-the-clock technical and investigative support provided by our Internet Crime Investigations Team here at Microsoft.

We put specific teams in specific areas with high crime, teams that weren't responsible for calls, but could concentrate on crime problems or quality of life problems.

We are charged with doing a full investigation, and we look at the whole picture before determining if a crime did in fact exist.

We've been right all along that Ronnie Earle charged a crime that didn't exist and there's 30 years of precedent that backs that up. We want to get to trial and hope once we do, a jury will find Tom Delay didn't do anything illegal.

We were not exactly on the cutting edge of that technology. We waited until it was pretty well proven and perfected before we went with it. It's a real good crime prevention tool because we can eliminate the middleman, the dispatcher. If a deputy wanted to check a tag, he had to go over the radio and get in line because that dispatcher is handling other requests and it might take a few minutes to run a tag.

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.

There has been a large number of shootings between rival gangs after this crime occurred.

There has to be some evidence besides the confession that the criminal act was committed by someone -- that the crime was real and not imagined.

We would give anything to see Annette alive again. They say there's a silver lining to everything, and from this horrible event, I would like to see Congress get involved to make the cruise industry accountable for crimes that happen to the American people.

When a crime occurs the only people there are the victim and the perpetrator. The states that have passed right-to-carry laws have lower crime rates than the states that do not.

We would like to thank (British tabloid) News of the World for helping us to detect Mr Glitter committing crime in Vietnam.

We will continue to take measures necessary to communicate to criminals that we do not tolerate crime in our restaurants. We are posting a reward and will not rest until we find the person responsible for endangering our employees and our community.

We keep better track of our library books than we do child predators. Those who break such a sacred trust and prey on our children - no matter who they are, where they are from or where they commit their crime - should have to make their whereabouts known or be subject to additional jail time and other penalties.

We're not positively sure these crimes are related, but we are reasonably sure they are,

We used to be the crime capital and now we're the safest large city in America. We used to be the welfare capital of America and now we're seen as the city that has moved more people off welfare, has moved more people to work from welfare, of any city in America,

We're just continuing to look into it to see if a crime occurred. Part of the investigation is centering on the condition of the victim.

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

I'm responding to the will of the people.

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

We have moved to begin the process of revoking the probation based on the seriousness of the underlying crime that placed him on probation. It will be up to a judge to decide what sanctions should be imposed.

We have no idea where the shooting took place. We couldn't find the actual crime scene.

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.

We are also providing additional, enhanced services for gun crime victims and witnesses involved in these lengthy and large gun-crime prosecutions,

We'll see what kind of victim it was, if it was a crime of opportunity or if someone who went out to lure a child.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

Work for the formation of the wildlife crime cell is in progress.

would be something that would help me develop a story wherein a very competent woman officer is transferred into a precinct where there is high crime and she is forced to work with an officer who is a member of this particular group, 'Men Against Women.'

Would I love every person in this crime to receive life in the penitentiary? Absolutely. But we have had to work with the first two defendants to be able to achieve even charging Ms. Burwell.

With this information, we can effectively direct our crime prevention units as we work to keep our schools and communities safe.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

We want to try to apprehend those people and take action against them for the most serious crime for which they are eligible for prosecution,

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

way less significant than the consequences that I mete out every single day for crimes that are far less significant.

The perpetrators of this heinous crime shall be brought to justice,

the person responsible for this crime is quite human. He is a man that embodies much of the best that we call human.

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

Until there is some direct thing done to prevent crime before it happens, it is going to keep happening. If a curfew can prevent crime before it happens, so be it.

There is no level of crime that is so bad... that rights no longer exist.

We're going to put those new deputies in the hot spots to ensure that we can keep crime down and answer calls for service.

We're going to continue until our dying day to make Royal Caribbean accountable and to make sure the perpetrators of the crime are brought to justice. They didn't preserve that crime scene, and now six months later there have been no arrests.

Working with local police to target these individuals and get them off the streets means that Allentown and Bethlehem are safer communities today. These criminals should not be allowed to continue preying on innocent residents. ICE can offer great assistance to local police by removing these deportable aliens from the community.

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

We believe this young man has committed a serious crime deserving of punishment, but not the loss of his life.

We grow up corporate, not civic. For example, we were led to believe that most crime comes from the street.