Crime Quotes

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.

Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

If you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey.

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

Despotism is a long crime.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.