Crime Quotes · Page 112

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

— Jordi Cuixart

“You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.”

— Shirley B. Garrett

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time,

— Victor Cruz

Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime.

— Derek Humphry

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

— George Farquhar

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.

— Arundhati Roy

If you committed a serious crime, you should not be allowed to own a gun.

— Eric Adams

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

— Luke Evans

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

— P. D. James

Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys…

— Aldous Huxley

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

— Colin Farrell

“Effective crime reduction policies involved early parenting classes, increasing the quality of education that children received, and providing children with a safe…

— R.D. Brady

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect,…

— Georges Bataille

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense…

— Anonymous

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective…

— Patti Smith

We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the…

— Johnny Cash

“What Sands told him that changed the course of his life boiled down to this: If your environment and circumstances control your…

— Brandon Webb

One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that.…

— Colum McCann

“One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid…

— Tyler Hamilton

Well, I believe she went in to rescue some Raggers from the pits,” Cuffs said. “She wasn’t all that specific.” “She went…

— Cinda Williams Chima

“It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the…

— Alice Jamieson

“Hush, Sonia! I am not laughing. I know myself that it was the devil leading me. Hush, Sonia, hush!” he repeated with…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part…

— William J. Brennan

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

Expectation is my CRIME... Disappointment is my Punishment. .

— Anonymous

We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat.

— Chesa Boudin

Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.

— Michelle Alexander

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

— Arthur Baer

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

— Gregory David Roberts

“I keep my valuable things locked up. Everybody does. Therefore, criminals must be valuable.”

— Jarod Kintz

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

— Andrew O'Hagan

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

— Adam McKay

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

— Sylvia Plath

“We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.”

— Don DeLillo

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

— Elbert Hubbard

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

— Walter Raleigh

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

— Robert Browning

I don't have to commit crimes, I don't have to do anything like that to try and make money.

— Bugzy Malone

“Karma works in reverse. You suffer so that you have to commit the crime.”

— Carl-John X Veraja