Crime Quotes · Page 15

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

— Cyrus Vance Jr

It's not a crime to get drunk.

— Joe Bob Briggs

While crime is punished it yet increases.

— Seneca the Younger

Criticism does not constitute violence.

— Michael J. Knowles

One crime has to be concealed by another.

— Anonymous

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

— Tupac Shakur

“The world's most elusive criminal is the government.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

— Marilyn vos Savant

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

— Eazy-E

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

— Nat Hentoff

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Why should people feel ashamed or humiliated because they have been the victim of a crime? I”

— Anonymous

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.

— Liam Neeson

The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to…

— Rashida Jones

The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the…

— Anonymous

Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save…

— Pope Francis

“The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life…

— Dan Garfat-Pratt

The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London…

— Boris Johnson

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

— Werner Herzog

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

— Joseph Brodsky

Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it…

— Lancelot Andrewes

Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Villalobos had always been eager to work in law enforcement. When he was in high school, he assembled a group of boys…

— Karl Kristian Flores

These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,…

— Bill McKibben

There's politics. When you talk about Asia - no one really wants to approach that full-force because it's very thin ice. No…

— Veronika Varekova

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as…

— Anais Nin

For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime…

— John Calvin

“Every human being makes mistakes and does things they’re not proud of. They can be everyday, or they can be catastrophic. And…

— Piper Kerman

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

— James Runcie

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

— Douglas William Jerrold

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

— Stephen Ambrose

If you see violence, condemn it.

— Hillary Clinton

Life's a prison when you're in love alone

— Anonymous

In the chill of the night. At the scene of a crime.

— Ramones

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

— Henry Van Dyke

Love unexpressed is a crime against the heart

— Anonymous