Crime Quotes · Page 64

“Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move.”

— Dave Eggers

I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

— Gary Sherman

“What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.”

— Anonymous

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

— Yo Gotti

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

— Richard Dawkins

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

— Bob Edwards

But think of the violence, it could happen to your kids.

— Yoko Ono

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Ignorance is the best punishment, you can give to your loved ones & it is the most painful experience yo can receive…

— Ritu Ghatourey

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while…

— Eugene V. Debs

My mother brought up nine children, in Hackney, and none of us are criminals, none of us in jail. Her strength made…

— Labrinth

“I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life…

— Shirley Jackson

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

— Chuck Todd

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted…

— Anonymous

“After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow…

— Terry Pratchett

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

— Benito Mussolini

For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up…

— Michelle Alexander

“Crime was a dirty public secret in Empire. No one talked about it, and if you listened to the Learned Council, you'd…

— A. Lee Martinez

It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on…

— Hunter S. Thompson

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form.…

— Kailash Satyarthi

As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.…

— Joseph Brodsky

“It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to…

— John Brunner

“- Rape is a unique crime, representing both a physical and psychological violation. More than with any other crime the victim can…

— Liz Kelly

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

— Noam Chomsky

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

— James Forman, Jr

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

— J. Edgar Hoover

“When you get to Hell, I'll be sitting in the hot tub waiting.”

— Kristen Houghton

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

— Douglas Hurd

“The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.”

— Cesare Beccaria

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

— Amanda Knox

What do people in prison say when they meet new friends? Give me your cell number.

— Dana Gould

Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.

— Tom McClintock

“If you're living in a country ruled by criminals it's hard to find justice”

— Thabiso Monkoe

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

— Jean Cocteau

In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.

— Anurag Kashyap

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

— Joel Edgerton

“Every crime like this needs someone like me to look away and say nothing.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

— Olga Tokarczuk