Crime Quotes
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo -
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
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I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.
Regina King -
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.
Emile Gaboriau -
Targets don't fight crime.
Theresa May -
The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
Ernest Van den Haag -
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.
Wayne LaPierre
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The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Crime is rampant. We even steal away from responsibility.
Andre Brie -
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Cassiodorus -
Transnational organized crime does not recognize any borders.
Patricia Espinosa -
I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.
Eliza Lynn Linton -
You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.
Raymond Kelly
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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
Lord Byron -
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
Charles Eliot Norton -
We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
Carrie P. Meek -
The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.
Navi Pillay -
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study.
Adolph Ochs -
To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
Wole Soyinka -
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.
John Corabi Mötley Crüe