More quotations tagged with “crime”
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
—Woody Allen
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
—Voltaire
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
—Randy K. Milholland
The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
—Publilius Syrus