Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment Votes: 3
Cesare BeccariaCrimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Votes: 3
Jean GenetCrimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroRevenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. Votes: 2
Samuel JohnsonIdentity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. Votes: 2
Melissa BeanWar is a crime which involves all other crimes. Votes: 0
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and VauxSloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonInstead of recognizing their mistakes, some people commit crimes to hide them Votes: 0
Bangambiki HabyarimanaTremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareChristianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name! Votes: 0
Ngugi wa Thiong'oWe rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. Votes: 0
Geraldine JewsburySecurities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. Votes: 0
Preet BhararaThe work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithGetting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes. Votes: 0
Kamala HarrisIf you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them. Votes: 0
Joe ArpaioIn the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity. Votes: 0
Carlos FuentesThe thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years! Votes: 0
James Gates Percival'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes. Votes: 0
Kamala HarrisMost men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. Votes: 0
Jean Francois Paul de GondiHe who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollThe crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. Votes: 0
Jules Amedee Barbey d'AurevillyThe appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyTemperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name. Votes: 0
Louis KronenbergerNot one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash. Votes: 0
Haskell WexlerMost people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerHow many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. Votes: 0
Albert CamusProperly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. Votes: 0
Pierre BayleCrime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. Votes: 0
Denise MinaThose who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me. Votes: 0
Sophie MorganAs with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister. Votes: 0
Peter McWilliamsAll kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauKnow about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes. Votes: 0
Marilyn vos SavantIf poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereI don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems. Votes: 0
Sergei LavrovNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. Votes: 0
Hannah ArendtFoolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed. Votes: 0
Louise PennyHistory is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Votes: 0
Edward GibbonHe that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonThose who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldHeaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us. Votes: 0
Pierre CorneilleThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldNever discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardThe planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature Votes: 0
Daphne ZunigaI never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. Votes: 0
Tupac ShakurHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Votes: 0
Edward GibbonBut the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. Votes: 0
Polly ToynbeeThe oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong. Votes: 0
Carter G. WoodsonDo not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners. Votes: 0
Amy DickinsonThe much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. Votes: 0
Jean-Marie Le PenOur generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.There are crimes I don't commit mainly because I don't want to find out I could. Votes: 0
James RichardsonThere are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven. Votes: 0
John E. DouglasA king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteWe commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights. Votes: 0
Don DeLilloRepentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals Votes: 0
John VanbrughYou should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely. Votes: 0
ThucydidesThe NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal. Votes: 0
Warren ChristopherActions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes Votes: 0
Daniel DefoeWhat have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking. Votes: 0
Colley CibberThere is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowAh! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreFreedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. Votes: 0
Donald RumsfeldThose who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawHe that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. Votes: 0
Edward YoungThere are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. Votes: 0
Albert CamusPolluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? Votes: 0
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyI was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes. Votes: 0
Jose MujicaIt may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime. Votes: 0
Jose BergaminHistory, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents Votes: 0
Edward GibbonLittle crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettI hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. Votes: 0
Liu XiaoboTo be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfI wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeThe worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done. Votes: 0
Léon BloyThe vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonWe all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle. Votes: 0
Azar NafisiThe justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past. Votes: 0
Jalal TalabaniThe planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature Votes: 3 Daphne Zuniga
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. Votes: 1 James Chiles
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. Votes: 5 Simon Wiesenthal
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! Votes: 4 David Zucker
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. Votes: 2 Albert Camus
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. Votes: 2 Clint Eastwood
Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes. Votes: 3 Martin Jacques
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. Votes: 4 Michael Badnarik