Crime Quotes · Page 69

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.

— G. Gordon Liddy

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

— Michelle Alexander

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

— John Milton

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

— Anita Roddick

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thought is really the most mischievous thing in life, the greatest criminal.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be…

— Anonymous

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

— Gillian Flynn

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.

— Maria Alyokhina

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity…

— Natasha Trethewey

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and…

— Anton Chekhov

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak…

— Primo Levi

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,…

— Michelle Alexander

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and…

— Paul Gallico

We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the…

— Pope Francis

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy…

— Argus Hamilton

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people…

— Assata Shakur

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the…

— Will Durant

Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be…

— Milton Friedman

I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I think that people don't realize that the sky will not fall when we legalize marijuana. My contention all along has been…

— Rick Steves

Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in…

— Henry Giroux

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

— Dan Geer

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

— Adolf Hitler

. habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

— Albert Camus

“Missing you hurts, loving you kills, being with u is a crime, and i'm still fine with that.”

— Anonymous

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

— Charles Evans Hughes

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

— Patty Hearst

Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

— Anonymous

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Anonymous

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

— William Jennings Bryan

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

— Yair Lapid

No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

— Mitt Romney

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

— Adolf Hitler

No more 'partners in crime' unless we're seriously going to knock off a liquor store or something.

— Anonymous

Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.

— Anonymous

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

— Tacitus