Crime Quotes · Page 204

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of…

— Plato

Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you…

— Rush Limbaugh

“it felt increasingly, as I became more whole, that I had made it all up, and that I was a phoney. I…

— Carolyn Bramhall

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

— Jean Racine

Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that’s become ever…

— Pope Francis

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found…

— Jan Schakowsky

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human…

— Emma Goldman

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything…

— Anonymous

“Family: a safe place to commit crimes. - K Yearwood”

— Kathleen Yearwood

hooting for 'Savdhaan India' in Mathura made me realise that no matter what place you come from be it a holy city,…

— Siddharth Shukla

I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need…

— Charles Barkley

“What crime have I committed? Am I a thief or a murderer, to have to degrade myself like this? In this country…

— Bandi

“At times society makes it seem like a crime to change one's mind.”

— Steven Redhead

Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the…

— Evgeny Morozov

Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of…

— Bruce Schneier

“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet…

— Sierra D. Waters

“Criminals did not have friends. They had associates, suppliers, fences, whores, sugar daddies, enablers, dealers, collaborators, co-conspirators, victims and bosses, any of…

— Robert Crais

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Isn't violence a failure of the imagination, after all? And that failure, isn't it stupidity?”

— Jeet Thayil

A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something…

— Gloria Steinem

Well, I believe she went in to rescue some Raggers from the pits,” Cuffs said. “She wasn’t all that specific.” “She went…

— Cinda Williams Chima

The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty…

— John Pilger

“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming,…

— Philippe Claudel

“Know this, sivamet-this child will be mine. I will take Vadim's blood from you and exchange it for mine. Eventually, over time,…

— Christine Feehan

Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining…

— Peter Kropotkin

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. But Putin - I don't know about women, but…

— Vladimir Voinovich

It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

— Anselm of Canterbury

In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've…

— Bryan Stevenson

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an…

— Imre Lakatos

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

— Edward Humes

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of…

— Oscar Wilde

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

— Letitia James

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

— Stand Watie

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker…

— Neal Stephenson

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

— Matt Taibbi

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and…

— Karl Popper

[Illegal immigrants] they`re bringing drugs. They`re bringing crime. They`re rapists.Somebody is doing the raping. Somebody is doing it. There`s women being raped.…

— Donald Trump

The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that…

— Noam Chomsky