Crime Quotes · Page 88

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Bobby Scott

“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

And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are…

— Cillian Murphy

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

— Hannah Arendt

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

— William Gilmore Simms

I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly,…

— George W. Bush

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

— Irakli Okruashvili

Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show 'Crime Stories?' No, it's crucial.

— Robert Rinder

It's also important that I, or [Producer] Karen Pritzker, also say that this film [ "Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the…

— James Redford

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious…

— Lauryn Hill

“You must have been working very hard here, with so few distractions.” Mary’s eyes darkened and she looked away. “Not quite as…

— Olga Núñez Miret

People are released from prison so unprepared. They give you $200. We call it gate money. And you have to pay for…

— Susan Burton

I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about…

— Derek Landy

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small…

— Jafar Panahi

I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I…

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.…

— Joost Meerloo

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.

— Donald Trump

“Some ride the bullet to vent, while some shoot the bullet to revenge.”

— Anthony Liccione

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

— Anonymous

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

— Bill Cosby

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

— Seth Gordon

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