Crime Quotes · Page 121

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

— Victor Hugo

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot

— Woody Allen

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

— Nicholas Kristof

The political elite prefers to see criminals as victims in need of therapy and TLC.

— Munira Mirza

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

— Robert Frost

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob…

— Ayn Rand

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed…

— Joseph Joubert

“The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, but only retaliation after an…

— Steven Pinker

“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.”

— Azar Nafisi

. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest…

— John Longenecker

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a…

— William Cowper

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is…

— Sarah Bakewell

“Laws must be efficaciously deterrent in nature, and in grave offences where offenders trespass the precincts of being a human, and commit…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

“This is the pattern of gun killings in big cities. Most homicides are not professional jobs, in felonious pursuits, but are committed…

— Sydney J. Harris

“Nixon’s dehumanization and demonization of drug offenders had been a (literally) smashing success. Tactics like these had rarely been used in the…

— Radley Balko

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a…

— Franklin P. Adams

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

— George W. Bush

I'll never be a father; unless you got the time it's a crime don't even bother.

— Wycked

“Do not be naive. Criminals cannot go unpunished. Nor can heroes.”

— Devin Grayson

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

— Woody Allen

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

— Huey Newton

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

— Shirin Neshat

Hatin life itself, hatin death for takin it's time. Lovin you enough not to commit the ultimate crime.

— Jean Grae

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

— Pablo Neruda

Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your…

— Babar Ahmad

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

— Richard Crashaw

“...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.”

— Émile Gaboriau

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

— Laeta Kalogridis

Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.

— Pierre Corneille

I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

— Tehmina Durrani

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

— Yo Gotti

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

— Frances Wright