Crime Quotes

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.

Stupidity is not a crime.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

Crime is rampant. We even steal away from responsibility.

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that's been implemented or adopted by a government.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.