Crime
Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
That which occasion crime.
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Crime Quotations
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Tupac Shakur
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore Roosevelt
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Ron Paul
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire
Crime Translations
crime in Danish is forbrydelse
crime in Dutch is misdaad, misdrijf
crime in French is crime
crime in German is Untat, Verbrechen, Verbrechen
crime in Italian is crimine
crime in Latin is vitium, dedecus, malum, facina -oris
crime in Norwegian is forbrytelse
crime in Spanish is crimen
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