Crime Quotes

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.