Crime Quotes · Page 203

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

— Jane Goldman

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

— Jeff Smith

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from…

— Elmore Leonard

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

— Dan Geer

As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all…

— Mark Twain

When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison.

— Clive Cussler

Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird…

— Bob Kane

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough…

— Brunonia Barry

I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and…

— George Orwell

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

— Ambrose Bierce

When John commits a crime,John is criminal and when Abdullah commits crime,Muslims are criminal!

— Zarnab

Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.

— Donald Trump

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

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

— Howard Tayler

“There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.”

— Rivera Sun

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

— George Bernard Shaw

We have to address head-on the underlying issues that drive crime.

— Wes Moore

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

— Patrick McGoohan

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden…

— Tiffany Madison

Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the…

— Obafemi Awolowo

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if…

— Aminu Kano

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

— Wallis Simpson

“Violence - the kind you see on television - is not honestly violent, there lies its harm.”

— William Strunk Jr

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

— Pierre Corneille

“Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile…

— Edward Humes

There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target…

— John Longenecker

“A lawman asking for bribe from a civilian to fulfill certain necessary paperwork, is committing injustice. A pervert who gropes and manhandles…

— Abhijit Naskar

Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

— James Surowiecki

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

— Benjamin Harrison

Crime takes place in every country. But it becomes abuse when the state is unwilling and unable to protect the life and…

— Asma Jahangir

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

— Oscar Wilde

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

— Anonymous

People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.

— Andrew Barrett

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

— Robert Herrick

My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over…

— Troy Duffy

“Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of a part of themselves. It's a crime.”

— Haruki Murakami

If a superhero is a community superhero, then is he going to protect his community by controlling everything? If he decides to…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I…

— Steven Hatfill

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their…

— Theresa May