Crime Quotes · Page 123

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars.

— Sarah Stillman

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

— Tacitus

“Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn’t look like the proper place for you,” said Chase.”

— Stefania Mattana

I never commit hate crimes because I'm against discrimination and assaulting random strangers is much more fun.

— Nikhil Saluja

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

— Horace

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

— Narendra Modi

If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them.

— Joe Arpaio

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears…

— Allen Tate

“That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Order whatever punishment you like, from the coward's distance of a chain-lenght. You and Govart are two of a kind.”

— C.S. Pacat

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

— Marshall McLuhan

There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of…

— Stephen King

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

— Mark Steyn

Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is…

— Burhan Sonmez

When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a…

— Bruce Springsteen

“Prison is a wound we keep tucked in those parts of the country that can’t afford to turn it away, who need…

— Leslie Jamison

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close…

— Noam Chomsky

“My style isn't subtle, I know that. I'm sure in fact it violates all kinds of rules about interrogation and all that,…

— Kendric Neal

“Tell you what,’ Stuart goads across the pavement at the huge officer who’s rolled down his window to wish us good-night, ‘since…

— Alexander Masters

Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the…

— Andrew Barrett

Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his…

— Nikki Haley

If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a…

— Marshall Savage

“the regression fallacy. The regression fallacy refers to the tendency to fail to recognize statistical regression when it occurs, and instead to…

— Thomas Gilovich

“Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said... 'are only degrees of theft.”

— Miguel Syjuco

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

— Ambrose Bierce

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

— Rebecca Adamson

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

— Ludivine Sagnier

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

— Samuel Gompers

“Begin to see the violence around you; begin to see the violence within you.”

— Bryant McGill

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

— Amanda Peet

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

— Brian Hodge

Violence makes people commit atrocious evil without even realizing it.

— David Dellinger

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

— George Wald

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

— Gregory Corso

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

— Emily Thornberry

“Every word has a meaning, Every work has a reason, Every song has a pain, Every love has a prison.”

— Lalit Majrikar

Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?

— Tom DeLonge