Crime Quotes · Page 91

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

— Richard Dawkins

“When you get to Hell, I'll be sitting in the hot tub waiting.”

— Kristen Houghton

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

— James Forman, Jr

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

— J. Edgar Hoover

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

— Noam Chomsky

“Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move.”

— Dave Eggers

I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

— Gary Sherman

Goofy pictures and crazy times. Sisters at heart and partners in crime.

— Narenkumar

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is…

— Rudy Giuliani

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do…

— Anonymous

So many kids that we label as 'thugs' and 'criminals' are often those same kids that end up in circumstances that are…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back…

— Susan Burton

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who…

— Laura Prepon

“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Eve: "Where's Mister Scary?" Roarke: "Summerset has the night off." Eve: "You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to…

— J.D. Robb

Too often reports have found that private jails and prisons are understaffed, have poor medical care, and have increased security risks, undermining…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

“The difference between a criminal and an outlaw is that while criminals frequently are victims, outlaws never are. Indeed, the first step…

— Tom Robbins

“Reframe Your Past as a Teacher, Not a Prison. Seraphina used her painful memories as a strategic map. Do not let your…

— Paulson Gracie

If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made…

— Alan K. Simpson

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and…

— Horace Mann

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The freedom-hating gun-grabbers do not care about reducing crime or saving lives, or they wouldn't be fighting for more gun-free zones where…

— Ted Nugent

“States do not grapple with decarceration strategies & explore alternatives bc of an ethical recognition of the continuing harms of prisons or…

— Erica R. Meiners

It's just this long overdue. These people [ex-Nazi brought to trial] should be grateful to the apathy that exists there that prevented…

— Marvin Hier

“Officially, he was no longer a victim, he was a criminal”

— Edward Humes

“Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.”

— D. Biswas

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

— Yo Gotti

“What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.”

— Anonymous

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

— Kangana Ranaut

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

— Peter Kreeft

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

— Samuel Johnson

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

— Henry Miller

“men are guilty of the greatest crimes from ambition, and not from necessity,”

— Aristotle

“I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I’m doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.”

— Wendy Ely

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

— Mo Ibrahim

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

— Cardinal Richelieu

The worlds worst crimes are not committed by the hungry people; they are committed by the over-fed!

— Anonymous

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to…

— Mary Archer

The criminals will be humiliated... To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

— Mahatma Gandhi