Crime Quotes · Page 80

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Anita Roddick

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

— John Milton

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

— Michelle Alexander

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

— G. Gordon Liddy

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

— George Brandis

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes,…

— Dev Hynes

I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I…

— Steven Hatfill

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion…

— J. Jayalalithaa

“Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning.…

— William Raymond Manchester

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

— Vikram Chatwal

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals.…

— Peter Mullan

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman…

— Ida B. Wells

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts…

— Edward Livingston

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted…

— Anonymous

Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate,…

— James Watkins

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that…

— Margaret Mead

State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in…

— Henry Giroux

It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew…

— Tod Goldberg

“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases…

— Beatrix Campbell

Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required…

— Bryan Stevenson

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

— William Butler Yeats

I have not committed any crimes. I have not stolen any money. I have not looted state resources.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment.

— Demetri Martin

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

— Graham Greene

“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.”

— Anonymous

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

— Gustave Flaubert

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

— Teresa Giudice

“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.”

— Laurie Matthew

What we have to continue to remind ourselves is that violence is a choice.

— Rosie Batty

“Sometimes the true punishment for miscreants and wrongdoers is having to be the person that they are.”

— Jim Lyon

If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.

— Marcia Gay Harden

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

— Matt Taibbi

The greatest prison people live in,is the fear of what people think.

— Stankyrich

“You know growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

— Anthony Powell

“i have lost millions and millions of words to fear. tell me that is not violence”

— Nayyirah Waheed

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge