Crime Quotes

• Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used those? That’s a crime against humanity right there.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Never
  • Used
  • Lips

• In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Trying
  • War
  • Decision

• Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Humanity
  • Murder
  • Committed

• The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Crime
  • Illness
  • Accompained

• 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.

  

  Beatrix Campbell
  • Secret
  • Automobiles
  • Sexual Abuse

• In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Choices
  • Military

• For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

  

  Thomas More
  • Suffering
  • Educated
  • Manners

• The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Information
  • Available
  • Organized

• There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • Crime
  • Trick
  • Vice

• I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Humanity
  • Destruction
  • Airpower

• I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Crime
  • Page

• 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
  • Crime
  • Source
  • Passions

• The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Character
  • Values
  • Presidential

• And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Peace
  • Destroyed
  • Disturb

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Society
  • Punishment
  • Termination

• Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Dark
  • Crime
  • Window

• The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Success
  • Secret
  • Account

• Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There is a vast difference between that reputation . . . and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.

  

  Elisabeth Guigou
  • Reputation
  • Charge
  • Libertine

• Poverty is the mother of crime.

  

  Cassiodorus
  • Mother
  • Poverty
  • Crime

• He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

  

  Aminu Kano
  • Party
  • Hero
  • Crime

• As a general thing, a first fault draws many others in its train. As an impalpable flake is the beginning of an avalanche, so an imprudence is often the prelude to a great crime.

  

  Emile Gaboriau
  • Crime
  • Train
  • Avalanche

• There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

  

  Rush Limbaugh
  • Law
  • Problem
  • Solve

• There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, 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
  • War
  • Sacrifice
  • Vain

• Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Crime
  • Difficulties
  • Jurists

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