Crime Quotes

The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.

Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun - not to kill someone, but to stop a crime.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively.

Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise for chicks outside the Old Navy in your Camaro.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.

The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.

The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

Obamacare is a crime against democracy.

Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

The idea will be to find of focus on crime and issues where there's not a lot of - where Donald Trump can kind of get people's emotions.