Crime Quotes · Page 101

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

— Emile M. Cioran

My city is the only jungle made out of concrete, all types of animals live behind these streets.

— G-Fwea D

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Expecting is my favorite crime & disappointment is always my punishment.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

“Violence of any kind, once it starts, is like fucking a gorilla-you ain't done till the gorilla's done.”

— Craig Ferguson

“The mind can be a prison or a prism...I choose the latter.”

— Paige Bleu

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

— Francis Bacon

Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.

— Seneca the Younger

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but…

— Alessandro Manzoni

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...

— Alfred Adler

“A knock that tells you the person outside has brought the worst possible news. News that’s going to change your life forever.…

— Sarah Hilary

“I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, ‘Throw your donut in the…

— Suzie Ivy

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities,…

— Lincoln Steffens

“[His pain] wasn’t a punishment. It wasn’t a gift. It just was. His pain was his life. It wasn’t all his life…

— Heidi Cullinan

I grew up in a very working-class area with a high crime rate and when I first started to break away from…

— Bez

“A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison —…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search…

— David Sedaris

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the…

— Adrienne Rich

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,…

— Ayn Rand

“Society's attitude toward crime and criminals is reflected by the laws on its statue books. As long as it views these problems…

— Lewis E. Lawes

I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality.…

— Colin Farrell

The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement…

— Michelle Alexander

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at…

— Kurt Huber

There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a…

— Paul Collier

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

— Mikhail Tal

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

— Mort Sahl

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

— Clarence Darrow

Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.

— Alexander Anderson

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

— Peire Cardenal

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

— John Locke

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

— Thomas Tusser

“Soldier don’t act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war.”

— Marlon James

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

— Andrew Marvell

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

— Juvenal

“I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!”

— A.A. Bell

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

— William Wordsworth

I've had a long career with a lot of fights, and I've taken a lot of punishment.

— Carlos Condit

To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.

— David Warner

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

— Nelson Mandela