Crime Quotes · Page 111

I didnt commit a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

— Farzeen Shah

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

— William J. Clinton

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

— Joe Biden

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

— Chris Hedges

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

— Phyllis Diller

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

— Azar Nafisi

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

— Joseph Addison

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

— Chris Grayling

With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.

— Andrew Neil

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives…

— Joe Biden

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that,…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to…

— Lewis Carroll

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced…

— Nathaniel Branden

If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at…

— Harry Browne

The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind…

— Morgan Freeman

“No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual…

— Kim Newman

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters…

— Tom Brown, Jr

Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of…

— Mark Shields

Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is…

— Dave Eggers

We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds.…

— Jostein Gaarder

Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even…

— Edward Snowden

A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis…

— Rajneesh

What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty,…

— Jacque Fresco

“In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances.…

— Kate Atkinson

“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.”

— Alex de Waal

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

— Jose Bergamin

“The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.”

— Sir Walter Raleigh

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Never resolve with violence what can be addressed with cutting commentary.”

— Phil Elmore

I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.

— Ben Elliot

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

— Jim Morrison

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

— Tupac Shakur

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

— Anonymous

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

— Jim Bakker

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

— Edgar Wright

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

“The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.”

— J.S.B. Morse

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

— Anthony Powell

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

— Parker J. Palmer

Snitches and rapists in the street. Crime to the fullest. Asking niggas if they got any extra nine bullets.

— Nas