Crime Quotes · Page 61

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

— Tom Rooney

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

— Saib Tabrizi

“We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.”

— Don DeLillo

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

— Elbert Hubbard

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

— Walter Raleigh

I don't have to commit crimes, I don't have to do anything like that to try and make money.

— Bugzy Malone

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

— Robert Browning

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

— Luke Evans

Needless to say, this would be an unthinkable crime—as it would kill tens of millions of innocent civilians in a single day—but…

— Sam Harris

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there…

— Jed S. Rakoff

I wanted to take part in the Women's Aid Real Man campaign because domestic violence affects so many women and children during…

— Duncan Bannatyne

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray…

— Mary Collyer

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

— Ovid

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the…

— Catherine Crier

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then…

— Lee De Forest

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic…

— Geoff Mulgan

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics,…

— Bob Barr

It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity,…

— M. William Phelps

People believe that forensics these days is the answer to everything and because we believe so ardently that forensics can lead us…

— Adrian Dunbar

“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse…

— Ross Cheit

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president.…

— Louis Stokes

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more…

— Abraham Lincoln

This is part of the president's problem. Where's Barack Obama been when the crime rate and the murder rate in Chicago has…

— Chris Christie

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the…

— Andrew Dominik

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

Expectation is my CRIME... Disappointment is my Punishment. .

— Anonymous

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

— Gregory David Roberts

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

— Arthur Baer

Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.

— Michelle Alexander

We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat.

— Chesa Boudin

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

— Andrew O'Hagan

“I keep my valuable things locked up. Everybody does. Therefore, criminals must be valuable.”

— Jarod Kintz

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

— Sylvia Plath

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

— Adam McKay

“You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.”

— Shirley B. Garrett

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

— Jordi Cuixart

Snitches and rapists in the street. Crime to the fullest. Asking niggas if they got any extra nine bullets.

— Nas

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

— George Farquhar

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time,

— Victor Cruz

Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime.

— Derek Humphry