Crime Quotes

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

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.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

Where there is no compassion, crime increases.

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

I always felt, you don’t have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

If you are a Morocco citizen with a dual nationality, if you commit a crime in Morocco you are stripped Moroccan nationality and send to our own country. We can learn from them in that respect.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.