Crime Quotes

Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

I think if there is to be a crime of 'political genocide' it needs to be formulated with great care and precision to avoid unpopular views from being criminalised.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

Okay. Now you have to move your arms and legs.” “I know how to make a snow angel.” “Then do it! Otherwise, you’re more like a chalk outline at a police crime scene.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.

You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.

My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

Now, Hillary's [Clinton] more than that, she's an actual - she could be a crime boss.

We're not hearing any Hollywood people talk about the Crime Family Foundation. We're not talking about any specific details about Hillary Clinton's work on the foundation.

Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

No crime has been without a precedent.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.