Crime Quotes · Page 85

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

— Jack Levin

“I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No one is innocent, and no one is guilty, the only real crime is the one you continue to commit

— Sabian Mark Henry De Long

Living you're life isn't a crime, Living it for yourself is.

— Daniyal Butt

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to…

— Denis Leary

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

— Edward Gibbon

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

— David Lidington

“You'd think old age was a criminal offense, not a destination we're all heading to.”

— David Mitchell

I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be…

— Brian Eno

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“That's what you need to be writing about. Not the increased crime rate, but the increased tolerance for criminals to do whatever…

— Diane Moore

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

— Daniel Guerin

This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able…

— Ralph W. Moss

A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals,…

— Jerry Brown

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no…

— Marquis de Sade

what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected…

— Blaise Cendrars

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The…

— Junot Diaz

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red…

— Bobby Fischer

I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with…

— Ann Coulter

Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence…

— David Schneider

When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity,…

— Barbara Coloroso

We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and…

— Salman Rushdie

“A serial killer is a rare and specific criminal profile. In males the motives’re sexual in nature usually, or nonsexual sadism. And…

— Jeffery Deaver

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

— Will Rogers

“Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.

— Karin Slaughter

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

— Euripides

“A mistake from a good person always gets treated as crime.”

— Pratik Akkawar

As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

— Abdul Kalam

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

— Albert Einstein

In this country, the only people who get punished for crime are the victims.

— Joe Don Baker

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

— Wayne LaPierre

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

— Ovid

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

— Tom DeLonge

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

— Ammianus Marcellinus

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

— Sarah Dessen

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

They [illegals] are bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists.

— Donald Trump

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

— Haskell Wexler