Crime Quotes · Page 79

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

— George Bernard Shaw

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

— Juvenal

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

— Rory Miller

The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.

— Masha Gessen

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

— Anonymous

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

— Patty Hearst

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

— Charles Evans Hughes

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

— Anonymous

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say.…

— Patrick Ness

The fantasy that accompanies and generates the anticipation that precedes the crime is always more stimulating than the immediate aftermath of the…

— Ted Bundy

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element,…

— Elizabeth Strout

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the…

— Laura Lippman

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians…

— Max Blumenthal

On the murder of New York deli owner Abe Lebewohl: It's almost like wiping out Carnegie Hall. A sandwich to a Jew…

— Jackie Mason

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Is it a crime to be strong?' That's something you might have asked. And I would have answered by asking the opposite…

— Naoyuki Ochiai

“Merely reducing sentence length, by itself, does not disturb the basic architecture of the New Jim Crow. So long as large numbers…

— Michelle Alexander

We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this…

— Veronika Varekova

“The woman with the cat complex is named Mrs. Alice Plesher, but she doesn't reveal her first name to him and Sai…

— Justin Bog

“Anyone want to help me start PAPA, Parents for Alternatives to Punishment Association? (There is already a group in England called ‘EPPOCH’…

— Kelly Bryson

“As the tough-on-crime movement gathered force, those who had been arrested or convicted rarely participated in debates over criminal justice policy, in…

— James Forman Jr

When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when…

— John D. Rockefeller

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's not as if I've ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I've got is knowing…

— Michael Portillo

No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

— Mitt Romney

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

— Yair Lapid

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

— William Jennings Bryan

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

— Anonymous

“Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.”

— Tom Greer

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

— Jean Racine

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

— Craig L. Thomas

Violence is never THE answer, first its words, then violence, then Fire, and lastly hide the body.

— Alexandria Anderson

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

— Anonymous

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Dan Geer

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

— Anonymous