Crime Quotes - Page 22

You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

There are no uncriminal crimes.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

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.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

This heinous crime should be of particular concern to all of us. . . . I know my colleagues will agree that the murder of Americans overseas cannot go unpunished. I will continue to closely follow developments in this case[.]