Crime Quotes · Page 105

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

— Adolf Hitler

Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.

— Anonymous

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

— Tacitus

“Every creature is born with a potential store of violence.”

— R.K. Narayan

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

— Michel Foucault

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

— Imre Lakatos

“When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison.”

— Bryant McGill

Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.

— Robert A. Heinlein

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the…

— Joseph de Maistre

“the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.

— Jordi Cuixart

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We're not hearing any Hollywood people talk about the Crime Family Foundation. We're not talking about any specific details about Hillary Clinton's…

— Rush Limbaugh

“You had to be free in your heart. Guilt, fear, anger—they were all their own kinds of prison. You could be out…

— Ronald Cotton

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

— Anonymous

When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.

— Eric Greitens

Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama…

— Edward Snowden

“He paused just long enough for me to know I was starting to bug him. I bug a lot of people, they…

— Kendric Neal

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with…

— Russell Smith

I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's…

— John Scalzi

“I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to…

— Ed Lynskey

While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“How exhausting all this was. In fact, if only people knew how madly tiresome it is to be a criminal...!”

— Hermann Hesse

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

— Hillary Clinton

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

— L. Ron Hubbard

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

— Richelle Mead

“People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.”

— Bethany McLean

I think violence should be a bit much sometimes because I don't like glorifying violence.

— Riley Stearns

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

— Henry Giroux

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

— Ambrose Bierce

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

— Ogden Nash

If I had been successful in my 20s, I'd be in prison. There's no question.

— Bridget Everett

“Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.”

— Elie Wiesel

“Suppression or Invalidation of any innate expression of who or what I am is a crime against myself.”

— Jean-Jacques Dalpe

If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.

— Meda Chesney-Lind

I'm not a criminal but I've been fingerprinted like a criminal.

— Maria Ressa

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

— Carrie P. Meek