Crime Quotes

As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.

I think when people accuse you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

Importance of technology is increasing every day, we must not deprive our children of technology, if we do then it's a social crime.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

We know that when law-abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.

It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.

He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

There are no uncriminal crimes.

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can't cure today.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.