Crime Quotes · Page 119

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

— Laurie Matthew

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

— Adrian G. Duplantier

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

— Leonard Peikoff

I don't think I'll ever do a show with violence where there's no consequences, 'cause I know the consequences.

— Salim Akil

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

— Steven Wright

“condign This word means well deserved, especially of punishment. Courts often use it wrongly to mean severe.”

— David Ross

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

— Jessica Mitford

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't…

— Richard M. Nixon

It is society's tolerance of violence in society that's probably responsible for violent behavior more than any motion picture or television show

— Anonymous

I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for…

— Heather Nova

Please Mr. Officer, leggo me hand. You don't know me and you don't understan. You see me flashin' a criss rental. So…

— Gregory Isaacs

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is…

— Yakov Smirnoff

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

— Stephen A. Diamond

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law…

— Robert Kennedy

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social…

— Paul Goodman

Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with…

— Shirin Ebadi

“It is different with the upper classes. They, following science, want to base justice on reason alone, but not with Christ, as…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the…

— R.J. Rushdoony

Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the…

— Noam Chomsky

As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person…

— Gabrielle Giffords

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There…

— Elisabeth Guigou

I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla…

— Anonymous

The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this…

— Leon Panetta

There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as…

— Rosa Parks

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

— Priti Patel

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

— Francis Bacon

The increasing crimes in Chennai have become a cause for concern. Chain snatching has become a routine affair.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

— Anwar Sadat

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

— Karin Slaughter

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is…

— Matt Taibbi

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it omance and adventure.

— Joe Bob Briggs

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

— Cyprian

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

— Jesse Jackson

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

— Russell Brand

I don't need a gf I need a partner in crime, a girl that's into what I'm into and we can get…

— Anonymous

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

— George Pelecanos

Hand In My Mind Both Sides One Lie Two Crimes Otherside Dont Fire Fully Dazed Like A Dream I Aint Moving Bitch.

— Tyga

“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”

— Shannon L. Alder