Crimes Quotes

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

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

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?

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

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

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

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.