Quotes 81 till 100 of 150.
-
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
-
Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
-
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
-
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
-
One crime has to be concealed by another.
-
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
-
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?
-
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
-
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
-
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Wolkenatlas (2008) -
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
-
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
-
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
-
Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
-
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
-
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
-
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
All crime famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 5)
