Crime Quotes

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.

I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

I know you lost your partner in crime, but...I want YOU to be MINE. Maybe WE should travel the world together, Camryn...I know I can't replace your ex--" "Andrew...it was always you.

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

The more welfare, the more crime.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.