Crime Quotes · Page 122

“As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.”

— Paul Russell

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

— Hill Harper

Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.

— George Pelecanos

Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today.

— Kweisi Mfume

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

— Jane Mayer

Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

— Juan Villoro

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than…

— David Dellinger

Far from protecting children, the abuse of Article 8 risks making them pawns - subject to coercion or worse - as part…

— Dominic Raab

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and…

— Aristotle

“a dangerous thing for any state to maintain its power by plugging up the vent of complaints, stifling the voices of the…

— Jeff Shaara

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.

— Marcia Clark

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

— Harvey Fierstein

I prefer to die than fall into a life of crime. If everyone starts thinking like that, the world will become a…

— Mak_786

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think…

— Jake Lloyd

“What kind of justice is this? Where the poor go to prison and the rich go free. Where witnesses are rented, bought,…

— Assata Shakur

We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war…

— Cindy Sheehan

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent…

— John Adams

This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases…

— Faxian

“At the very end of the street the bitumen gave way to reddish-orange dirt. And then it stopped altogether. Proud gumtrees blocked…

— Duane Ratswander

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its…

— Anonymous

There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing…

— Bryan Kest

What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the…

— Michelle Alexander

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

— Eric Sevareid

Rape is a more heinous crime than murder since the rape victim dies throughout the period she lives.

— Amit Abraham

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

— Glenn Ligon

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

— John Ridley

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.

— Lloyd Paul Stryker

Hijacking other's meetings or classrooms - this is online crime.

— Eric Yuan

Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence.

— Heather Mac Donald

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

— Thomas Paine

“Whereever we get punishment, know that it is our own fault only. How would we be punished otherwise?”

— Dada Bhagwan

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

— Edward Coke

When we talk about negativity through crime it has an effect on me.

— Mohnish Bahl

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

— Cato the Younger

“Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.”

— Jack London

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

— Dan Simmons