Crime Quotes · Page 111

“Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing.”

— Bernie Mcgill

Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth

— Agatha Christie

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

— Seneca the Younger

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

— Markus Zusak

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

— Warren E. Burger

“Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.”

— Carrie Arnold

Every vice is already a punishment in itself... you don't need a ticket on top of it.

— Doug Stanhope

“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.…

— Valerie Sinason

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to…

— Kamala Harris

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no…

— Daniil Kharms

“Eating is self punishment; punish the food instead. Strangle a loaf of Italian bread. Throw darts at a cheesecake. Chain a lamb…

— Denise Dietz

“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection”

— Natascha Kampusch

I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are…

— Jen Kirkman

The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by…

— Janet Reno

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to…

— Lord Acton

“is a fact known to almost everyone familiar with the Anarchist movement that a great number of acts, for which Anarchists had…

— Emma Goldman

“It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a…

— Richard Ford

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know…

— Errol Morris

“Executing Ted Bundy cost the state of Florida seven or eight million dollars, money that could have been better invested in building…

— Gary Lequipe

Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled…

— Jacob Schiff

“Can we feel contrition for other people's crimes? Can we feel contrition for crimes we have not committed personally, but have subsequently…

— Sven Lindqvist

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The flip side of the rising tide of black mob violence is what the prison psychologist calls "infantile omnipotence." This is the…

— Colin Flaherty

Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness.

— Doug Stanhope

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

— Vanessa Hudgens

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour

— Peter Hain

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

— Rumi

“Endangering human life for profit should be a universal crime.”

— Suzy Kassem

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes

— Daniel Defoe

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

— Anonymous

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

— Pierre Trudeau

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

— George Bernard Shaw

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

— Sophie Hannah

“Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say.”

— Kathleen Flinn

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

— Hans Christian Andersen

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

— Ron Paul