Crime Quotes · Page 77

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

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Robert Ingersoll

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

— Howard Berman

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

— Simon Wiesenthal

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

— Kamil Alvi

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

— Leona Lewis

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

— Thomas Leuthard

People turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left.

— Robert Fisk

I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political…

— Assata Shakur

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

— Jean Racine

Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle…

— Chesa Boudin

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables…

— Mark Twain

I would agree with [criminal suspects being subjected to a DNA test after arrest]...if that's one step closer to finding out who…

— Erin Brady

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

— Ariana Franklin

“…but his problem was infinity; his problem was time running along the x-axis versus stress running along the y-axis, and there never…

— Andrew Barrett

“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if…

— Jeff Wheeler

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we…

— Mikko Hypponen

I think that when you have any folks in our population who live under the threat of violence, who live under the…

— Chris Christie

We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And…

— Mike Huckabee

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter…

— Judith Lewis Herman

The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the…

— R.J. Rushdoony

I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction -…

— Anthony Geary

When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations…

— Daniel Goldstein

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

— James Surowiecki

“condign This word means well deserved, especially of punishment. Courts often use it wrongly to mean severe.”

— David Ross

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

— Hillary Clinton

“I have no pity for criminals, but family is a different story”

— Monkey D. Garp

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

— Isaac Parker

People who commit crimes are generally reluctant to tell on themselves.

— Jason Whitlock

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

“I don't write crime fiction. I write romances between fucked up people that happen to be active criminals.”

— Anonymous

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Bobby Scott

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Ali Gomaa

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

“You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.”

— Charles Williams