Crime Quotes · Page 101

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

— Laurence J. Peter

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

— Woody Allen

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

— Jules Verne

“Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe.”

— Pat Conroy

“When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!”

— Victor Hugo

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

— Tom Hayden

Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.

— Leonard Robert Davids

“Oh God. I'm losing it. Everyone knows this is how criminals get caught. They add too many details and trip themselves up.”

— Sophie Kinsella

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong…

— Sophie Hannah

To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

— Michael Z. Williamson

I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

— Dave Beard

My only crime was loving you and my punishment was the broken heart, you gave me when you walked out of my…

— Rashida Rowe

Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut…

— Horace

“It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely…

— Bryan Sykes

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be…

— George Bernard Shaw

When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, 'Well, it's men hurting other men.' When we…

— Warren Farrell

When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love…

— Shane Claiborne

Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever…

— Malik Zulu Shabazz

I want to get out in the community and make sure everyone knows I'm not some renegade driver that's out there and…

— Jayson Werth

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes…

— Chris Hedges

Yes, [Philadelphia is] horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there…

— Anonymous

“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be…

— Kathryn Hurn

In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre…

— Amadeo Bordiga

We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Crime, crime, rockin' like Janet Reno. Time, time, eighteen and life in Chino.

— Offspring

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

— Samuel Johnson

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

— Voltaire

We're in no way crime journalists or professionals really.

— Karen Kilgariff

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

— Karin Slaughter

“He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.”

— Raymond Chandler

If we put people to work and they are busy, we will have less crime.

— Alexander Lukashenko

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

— H. G. Wells

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

— James S.A. Corey

“though of course poverty is no crime—we must remember that!”

— Anonymous

“Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?”

— Stefania Mattana

As in health, so in crime - prevention is better than cure.

— Ash Sarkar

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

— Anonymous

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

— Anonymous

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

— Friedrich Nietzsche