Crime Quotes

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

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

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

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

to teach without zest is a crime.

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.