Crime Quotes · Page 277

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

— Mort Sahl

I cannot accept violence.

— Miriam Margolyes

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And,…

— Paul Bloom

“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of…

— Pierce Brown

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights,…

— Louis L'Amour

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Murderers can use multiple sites from the moment they capture their victims. However, the main scene is where death occurs. It’s usually…

— Gary Lequipe

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which…

— Emile Zola

“Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken. "My dear…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that…

— Lee Zeldin

“[Stieg] was describing Sweden the way it was and the way he saw the country: the scandals, the oppression of women, the…

— Eva Gabrielsson

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward…

— James Sallis

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

— Ramsey Clark

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things…

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.”

— S.A. Tawks

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

— Helen McCloy

I have friends in prison. I send them money. I send them food. They say, 'Bro, get me out of here.' There's…

— Draymond Green

“But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it…

— Albert Camus

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes

— Daniel Defoe

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people…

— Piper Kerman

“is a fact known to almost everyone familiar with the Anarchist movement that a great number of acts, for which Anarchists had…

— Emma Goldman

Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not…

— Samuel Johnson

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Just making sure you know I got home. Two hours ago. when I beeped the first time. Clearly, I am not cut…

— Carol M. Tanzman

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

— Nat Hentoff