Crime Quotes

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

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.

Crime is a product of a distorted mind.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them.

I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

From a single crime know the nation.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.

Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.