Quotes About Crime

Instead we will see an increase in a sophisticated, nonviolent form of crime: the counterfeiting of credit cards and the manipulation of the computer programs that carry out transfers of monetary credit.

Instead, as is already happening to some degree, organized-crime families will turn toward legitimate operations.

If a man punches you in the eye, you are not expected to have pleaded with him not to for the crime to be accepted as assault. If you are sitting at your cash register and someone demands the cash in it, you will not be accused of consent if you simply hand it over. Only in the prosecution of rape is evidence of resistance an issue.

Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Ma in ogni caso non è ammissibile sostenere che versare una percentuale sia un atto innocente: implica, nella migliore delle ipotesi, il riconoscimento dell'autorità mafiosa.

Soltanto affrontando la mafia per quello che è - un'associazione criminale seria e perfettamente organizzata - saremo in grado di combatterla.

If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.

A 2008 study conducted by Specialty Research Associates shows that the rates of teen sex, pregnancy, and venereal disease, along with crime, illiteracy, drug use, and suicide, started going through the roof almost immediately following the 1962 Supreme Court decision that ended teacher-led prayer in public schools.

To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?

Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.

Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes...reach the light of day?

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. —UNKNOWN

In a civilisation frankly materialistic and based upon property, not soul, it is inevitable that property shall be exalted over soul, that crimes against property shall be considered far more serious than crimes against the person.

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What a paradox, what a fearful reproach, when the distinction of a few hundred miles — nay, as many feet or even inches! — can transform heinous crime to simple unqualified circumstance!

By comparison, at the same time that the Mongols were moving to limit the use of torture, both church and state in Europe passed laws to expand its usage to an ever greater variety of crimes for which there need be no evidence.

Donald L. Rider was a guy, just a guy, it seemed, if you didn't know his FBI record which reached from Phoenix, Arizona, to Helena, Montana. By the age of nineteen, in just two exuberant years, he had worked at robbery, burglary, car theft, jail escape, and strongarm terrorism.

Early on a spring morning, Policemen Robert Coffman and Jack Carter are working the night watch out of Central Division.

there's more crooks over there in Westminster than there are lurking down the Mile End Road—

A man charged with a crime has a right to a lawyer, and when the community is most strongly against him, his right is morally greatest.

A man does not come to the alms-house or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires. Nor does a pure-minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power.

But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.