Crime Quotes · Page 56

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

— Anonymous

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

— Pierre Corneille

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

— Bill James

“You are from Belfast; are you sure that was your first time holding a gun?”

— Neil Walker

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

— Karin Slaughter

Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For every crime there is a price, due by pain or shame; underneath every monster lies a beast that isn't tame.

— Jamie Timbre

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

— Robert Earl Keen

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault…

— Blaise Pascal

Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

— John Wooden

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a…

— Matt Gonzalez

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of…

— Jack Kevorkian

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

— Florence King

“Because of the matrix of rampant horrors often described as overcriminalization, it is no longer possible for you to rely on your…

— James Duane

U.S News: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people,…

— Edwin Meese

Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing…

— Steven Erikson

I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of…

— Woody Allen

Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage,…

— Wayne D. Dosick

Palestinians have been banned since forever. And nobody - and it's an unhuman act, and it's a - for me, it's a…

— Tamer Nafar

Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest…

— Jo Nesbo

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the…

— Anonymous

Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write…

— Ronald Kessler

“...above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...”

— Margaret Fuller

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them less than human.

— David Kreger

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

— Mark Millar

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

— Suge Knight

It is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom

— Emma Goldman

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

— Chester Gould

They [illegals] are bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists.

— Donald Trump

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

— Genghis Khan

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

— Haskell Wexler

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

— Ovid

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

— Wayne LaPierre

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

— Albert Einstein

In this country, the only people who get punished for crime are the victims.

— Joe Don Baker

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

— Sarah Dessen

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

— Ammianus Marcellinus