Quotes of: Crimes Keyword

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Tom Robbins

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Charles Sturt

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

Desiderius Erasmus

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Maximilien Robespierre

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

Karin Fossum

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

Tommy Chong

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

William Julius Wilson

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

Douglas Hurd

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Noam Chomsky

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

William Landay

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Clint Eastwood

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?

Carl Sandburg

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

HÃ¥kan Nesser

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Jean Baudrillard

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Emile M. Cioran

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

Emile Durkheim

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

Bob Hope

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

Jeff Ross