Crime Quotes · Page 66

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

— Simon Wiesenthal

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

— Howard Berman

In Nature there are neither rewards nor punishment, there are consequences.

— Robert Ingersoll

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

— Joseph Conrad

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

— Thomas Leuthard

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

— Leona Lewis

“Obligation is a prison. To get out of it, we must serve our time.”

— Kamil Alvi

There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will…

— Stephen Harper

My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug…

— Michael K. Williams

“Aren’t those vegetables sexy, Rog?” Grant cooed, trying to hold in laughter. “Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots…

— Jennifer Lane

When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected…

— Cory Doctorow

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into…

— Pierre Trudeau

“This is not a game, you horrible man,' Mr. Poe said. 'Dominos is a game. Water polo is a game. Murder is…

— Lemony Snicket

There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of…

— David Gauke

“when you use your limited powers to inflict petty punishments you demonstrate your weakness to the world. It just tells everyone you…

— Mackey Chandler

...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing…

— James Hansen

Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question…

— Anthony Bourdain

When a show communicates on such a vast level internationally, you know, and philosophizes about power, gender politics, and crimes against humanity,…

— Natalie Dormer

Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue…

— Charles Bradlaugh

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime…

— Jane Austen

Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get…

— Ann Brashares

A Muslim woman was found in adultery or fornication and we know that there could be no pregnancy without the agency of…

— Louis Farrakhan

The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already…

— Julian Assange

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

— Bobby Seale

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are ‘acceptable crimes’ when used for the animal cause,

— Alex Pacheco

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

— Marquis de Sade

“The dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.”

— Corban Addison

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

— Justin Miller

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

— Dan Barker

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

— Albert Camus

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

— Bill Vaughan

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

— Noam Chomsky

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

— Seneca the Younger

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

— James Q. Wilson

When I was in So Solid Crew, people were always asking if we were associated with the rise in gun crime.

— Ashley Walters

Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

— Ali Gomaa

“Criminal’ pompousness will not do; ‘civil’ pompousness is acceptable.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

— Bobby Scott