Crime Quotes · Page 100

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

— Sinead O'Connor

“you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.”

— Neil Gaiman

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

— Ronald Reagan

The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

— Adam Cohen

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

— Bob Dylan

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

— Al Sharpton

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

— Jeremy Aldana

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

— Victor Hugo

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but…

— William Greider

C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social…

— Sharon Carstairs

This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some]…

— Lady Gaga

It's hard to believe that Clinton could even be running. To be honest with you, with the e-mails and the crimes she…

— Donald Trump

Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common…

— Dick Durbin

I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall…

— John Lewis

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably…

— Claude Lelouch

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

— Pat Conroy

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all…

— Allan Massie

“If you kill one person is called a crime, and you are called a criminal. If you kill ten people you are…

— Beta Metani' Marashi

“I write that crime is an unlawful act of violence that can be committed by anyone, and that punishment is the consequence…

— Mahbod Seraji

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has…

— Adam McKay

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the…

— Sophie Hannah

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we…

— Dahlia Lithwick

Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing…

— Eugene Levy

Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds…

— Elizabeth Carter

“The control of violence is the most important dilemma every society faces.”

— James Dale Davidson

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

— Aaron Eckhart

“The crimes of the moonlight melonmounter followed him as crimes will.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.”

— Gene Tierney

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

— Mark Frost

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

— Anthony Burgess

“When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.”

— Daniel Suarez

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

— Alastair Reynolds

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni

“Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime'.”

— Oscar Wilde

Let's commit the perfect crime, I'll steal your heart and you'll steal mine.

— Anonymous

If loving you was a crime, I would have been the most wanted criminal. (:

— Anonymous

“Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima”

— Alfred Hitchcock

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.”

— B. Barmanbek