Crime Quotes · Page 105

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

— Yo Gotti

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

— Mikhail Bakunin

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

— Laurence J. Peter

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

— John Spenkelink

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

— Thomas Paine

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

— Susan L. Taylor

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

— Jake LaMotta

Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven,…

— Andrea Leadsom

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any…

— Takeshi Kitano

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough…

— Allyson Schwartz

Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission),…

— James Hird

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions…

— Anthony Joshua

“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in…

— Laurie Matthew

Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard…

— Robertson Davies

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated…

— James Agee

“Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug,…

— Michael Pollan

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…

— Arthur Koestler

I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to…

— Lorraine Hansberry

“As we walked to Fr Walsh’s office, Sting asked me what I thought our punishment might be. I had just been beaten…

— James Berryman

“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,…

— Thomas Paine

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

— Anonymous

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

— Victor Hugo

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot

— Woody Allen

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

— Nicholas Kristof

The political elite prefers to see criminals as victims in need of therapy and TLC.

— Munira Mirza

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

— Robert Frost

I'll never be a father; unless you got the time it's a crime don't even bother.

— Wycked

“Do not be naive. Criminals cannot go unpunished. Nor can heroes.”

— Devin Grayson

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

— George W. Bush

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

— Woody Allen

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

— Huey Newton

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

— Shirin Neshat