Crime Quotes

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.

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.

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

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

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.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.

The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

You can remain friends, even without EU membership. The Prüm Convention, according to which data for combatting crime is exchanged, is a good example of international cooperation.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.