Crime Quotes · Page 117

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

— Jair Bolsonaro

Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.

— Conner Eldridge

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

— Robert Breault

“If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone

— Al Capone

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.”

— Katherine Arden

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

— Jose Mujica

Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but…

— George Carlin

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to…

— John Warren Kindt

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of…

— Malcolm X

“By and large, where criminal candidacy exists, the dominant form seems to be a single candidate with a serious criminal record.”

— Milan Vaishnav

I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with…

— David Grann

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved…

— Jo Nesbo

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime…

— Malcolm X

I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in…

— Mike Tyson

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted…

— Pierre Bourdieu

No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been…

— Nadine Strossen

A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in…

— Tex Watson

You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate…

— Katherine Applegate

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a…

— Piper Kerman

“The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in prison is a…

— Michelle Alexander

“Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent…

— Sam Harris

It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing…

— Damon Knight

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

— Dylan McDermott

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

— Billy Joel

“We're all prostitutes sir we're all selling ourselves for something”

— Saira Viola

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

— Juvenal

“Wakaalate bhi ajab-gazab hui zindagi mein Baari humaari kya aayi, gawaah hi badal gaye — Wajid Shaikh”

— Wajid Shaikh

Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

— Tacitus

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

— Sigmund Freud

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

— Emma Goldman

“The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.”

— B. Barmanbek

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Sophisticated criminal organizations have one incentive: money. They find a need and fill it.

— Michelle Steel

“Revenge has a strange taste, not sweet, nor nasty, just unpalatable, like prison food.”

— Laura Elliot

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

— Sathya Sai Baba

A prisoner is committed for punishment whereas a sovereign is committed for privilege.

— Robert D Dangoor

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

— Samuel Richardson