Crime Quotes

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Vices are not crimes.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.