Crime Quotes · Page 113

If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.

— Jean De La Bruyere

“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.”

— Kamand Kojouri

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

— Stand Watie

“Regression effects teach us specious lessons about the relative effectiveness of reward and punishment.”

— Thomas Gilovich

'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.

— Brian Azzarello

I'm not asking victims to change their behavior. I'm asking perpetrators not to commit crimes.

— Blac Chyna

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

— F. Lee Bailey

“Our crimes always catch up with us. - Alfred Pennyworth”

— Greg Cox

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send…

— Andrew Jackson

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think…

— Hugh Leonard

You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder,…

— Thomas Young

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through…

— Antonin Artaud

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away…

— Michael Kirby

“For most of history, life has been hierarchical. A few have enjoyed the privileges that come from monopolizing violence. Everyone else has…

— Niall Ferguson

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air…

— Jean Genet

“Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Andrew..,' I shake my head, tears rolling my cheeks, '... it was always you," I whisper harshly. 'Even with Ian, I felt…

— J.A. Redmerski

How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold…

— Max Nordau

I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a…

— Vincent Bugliosi

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance…

— George Bernard Shaw

The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Before you can act fully and truly, you must know the prison in which you are living, how it has been created;…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking candy bar. [...] She reached down [...] and chose a Galaxy bar [...]…

— J.D. Robb

“What had this woman and the other victims done which could merit such violence being done to them?”

— Mark Sennen

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Crime is a subject that needs to be looked at in-depth since the percentage is on the rise.

— Sudha Chandran

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

— Stanley Bing

To live with a guilt not doing the duty is the worst self punishment.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.”

— Catherine Aird

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't start targeting what's feeding crime then we are going to throw good money into a bad scenario.

— Eric Adams

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

— George Pelecanos

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

— Rob Zombie

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

— George W. Bush

The criminal conduct of Hillary Clinton threatens the foundations of democracy.

— Donald Trump

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

— Adolf Hitler

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

— Rand Paul

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

— Ovid