Crime Quotes

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

There is no such thing as a hate crime.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Dying is not a crime.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

History is the study of the world's crime

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.

Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.