Crime Quotes · Page 324

My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of…

— Daniel Beaty

By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this…

— Ava DuVernay

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half…

— Adrienne Rich

“When kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) do not result in punishment, it is called Gnan (Knowledge of the Self). When kashays result in punishment, it…

— Dada Bhagwan

“A deep-seated ambivalence has always characterized the official response to the political prisoner. Charged and tried for the criminal act, his guilt…

— Joy James

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