Crime Quotes
There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime.
Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.
My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.
If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.
Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.
Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.
We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.
I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.
To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time
There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.
The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé.
Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.
I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.
Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.