Crime Quotes · Page 76

“Next time we commit crime, we'll make sure to include him.”

— Rachel Caine

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

— Edward Humes

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

— Bill Gates

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

— Claudio Hummes

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

— Hannah More

I love the idea of getting into the mind of the criminal.

— Ken Howard

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

— Eugene V. Debs

“It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.”

— Deb Caletti

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data…

— Anonymous

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

— Dalai Lama

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty…

— Warren E. Burger

“The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital…

— Douglas Wilson

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach…

— Bob Riley

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

— Angela Davis

Growing up with a father who was a judge, I heard a lot about justice. But for justice to be applied, punishments…

— Ralph Northam

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

— Denise Mina

Crime takes root when household budgets are unable to address the conditions that can lead to despair and violence, and government services…

— Eric Adams

The crimes committed against the people of West Papua are some of the most shameful of the past years. The Western powers…

— Noam Chomsky

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most…

— Jean Racine

“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and…

— P.W. Thirion

“The permanent antidote to crime is education alone, Law ‘n policy are just to ensure its true democratization. More than trying a…

— Abhijit Naskar

Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done…

— Ariel Dorfman

You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of…

— Radley Balko

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

We all have violence inside of us, but we try to channel it into what we do.

— Max Cavalera

“All right, big boy. I am officially declaring you a dating crime scene.”

— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

— Alex Cox

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

— Dan Barker

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

— Justin Miller

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

— Corban Addison

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

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

— Bobby Seale

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

— Ashley Walters

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

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Albert Camus