Crime Quotes

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

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.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

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.

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.