Crime Quotes · Page 92

Hillary Clinton's guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run for president.

— Donald Trump

“Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?”

— Carl Sandburg

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

— Michel Foucault

The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.

— Jesse Ventura

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

— Ron Paul

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

— Anonymous

Without our knowing when it happens, these walls of protection become a prison.

— John Bevere

If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

— Jane Goldman

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our…

— Pete Domenici

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is…

— Harry Belafonte

The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people.

— Cori Bush

My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me…

— Bryan Callen

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the…

— Jeanette Lee

Saddam Hussein is about to face trial and George Bush wants to execute him. Not because of the war crimes, but because…

— Craig Kilborn

there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield…

— Eleanor Dark

The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of…

— Danny Pino

“Chase rushed after her in pursuit. The woman lost one of her high-heeled shoes and Chase took advantage of her lack of…

— Stefania Mattana

It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding…

— Stephen Bright

Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns…

— Gerald Heaney

There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be…

— Kate Chopin

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror,…

— Jeanette Winterson

The prison system today is so messed up. Some people say, "Some criminals are made in prison," and it's actually true. The…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all…

— Walter Lippmann

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

— Bertrand Russell

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

— Adam Ant

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

— Wally Amos

“Don’t take too much from her. We’re criminals, not bad people.”

— Finn Eccleston

“For some, guilt is a stronger prison than love or happiness.”

— Death-T.A. Chase Pestilence

It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't.

— Arthur Gore

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

— Ahmed Yassin

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

— Daniel Woodrell

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

— Cyprian

“And finally, your punishment WILL be cruel and unusual (no TV or IPad for a week, etc…)”

— Jon Ziegler

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...

— Cesare Pavese

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

— Nellie L. McClung

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

— Benigno Aquino III

“Each body is a death, but not every death is a crime scene.”

— Charles Graeber

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

— John Locke

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

— Peire Cardenal