Crime Quotes
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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.
Eleanor Dark
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Seneca the Younger
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
George Will
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Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.
Heather Brooke
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How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make a little lame segue. "Hey, that's a big lotto jackpot! Speaking of lotto, there was a lot o' crime in the city today."
Brian Regan
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The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose.
Mike Huckabee
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The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
Norm MacDonald
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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.
Eric Greitens
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If Moroccans born in Holland commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does.
Geert Wilders
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Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.
Bill Clinton
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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.
Albert Camus
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The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)
Confucius
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Money interests fix the punishment for crime in this country consequently there is no moral justice.
Edward Anderson
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Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.
Evgeny Morozov
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Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.
Ariana Franklin
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It would be a crime against Twilight audience to go R-rated... Yet the rating is based on a much more mature book Breaking Dawn,Stephenie Meyer. We need to progress and be more sophisticated.
Wyck Godfrey
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Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.
Christina Stead
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
Stieg Larsson
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Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.
Hank Stuever
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Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
William Shakespeare
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If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.
Anne Bronte