Crime Quotes · Page 109

“The more we tolerate crime, the more crime we will have.”

— David Oliver

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

— David Lidington

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

— Jeffery Deaver

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,

— Barbara Kruger

“The worst is when people - knowingly or not - carry prison inside themselves. - 9-10 P.M. Poems ”

— Nâzım Hikmet

“In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology.”

— Eula Biss

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

— Susan Rosenberg

I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.

— Richard Hammond

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.

— Bruce Willis

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the…

— Thomas Hobbes

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics…

— Ralph Nader

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I went to live with my grandparents when my parents threw me out. Then I went to prison at the age of…

— Bez

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does…

— Sam Sheppard

“The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect,” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her…

— Stefania Mattana

No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of…

— Jim Caviezel

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they…

— Arundhati Roy

The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may…

— Ambrose

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible…

— Bill James

No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of…

— Julian Baggini

Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird…

— Bob Kane

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half…

— Adrienne Rich

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy…

— Janet Reno

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

— Samuel Johnson

“Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.”

— Steve Maraboli

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

— Rick Steves

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

— James Cook

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

— Nancy Grace

“Was he in trouble? Women were so good at saying everything was fine while plotting punishment.”

— Sarah E. Morin

Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.

— Dido Harding

“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.”

— Pat Conroy

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

— Bill James

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

— Alan Dershowitz

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

— Don DeLillo

When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison.

— Clive Cussler

“Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills”

— Kenneth Eade

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

— Richard Griffiths

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

— Marquis de Sade