Crime Quotes · Page 114

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.”

— Charlie Donlea

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

— John Legend

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

— Kate Mosse

“Death is quick. It’s the end. And everyone dies. It’s not punishment because it’s inevitable.’ Bob”

— Helen Harper

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

— Anthony Yarde

“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

— Marquis de Sade

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if…

— Kevin Powell

If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and…

— Eric Garcetti

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and…

— Stanley Crouch

“Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten…

— Whoopi Goldberg

If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn't go…

— Joe Harris

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

— Elizabeth Flock

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners…

— John William Fletcher

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs…

— William C. Brown

Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat…

— Tao Lin

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed…

— Rowan Williams

Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of…

— Elie Wiesel

When you realize that your freedom is being taken away from you, you're like, 'You know what, I'm not going to get…

— Michael Sorrentino

We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence.…

— Frank Miller

When my family goes to sleep, I start clicking, combing through digitized phone books, school yearbooks, and Google Earth views of crime…

— Michelle McNamara

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

— John F. Kennedy

“Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art”

— Dean Cavanagh

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

— David Icke

Justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail, it just means that someone pays for the crime.

— Anonymous

Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

— Anonymous

“All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.”

— Susana Fortes

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

— Jim Goad

“Absolutely nothing should stand in the way of a murder investigation, however lowly the victim.”

— Mark Ellis

“I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.”

— Michael Connelly

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

— James Gilligan

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For this crime we should beg the souls of the dead and their families for forgiveness,

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

— Henry Louis Gates