Crime Quotes · Page 116

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

— Will Rogers

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

— Ovid

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

— Wayne LaPierre

In this country, the only people who get punished for crime are the victims.

— Joe Don Baker

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

— Albert Einstein

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

— Ammianus Marcellinus

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

— Sarah Dessen

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

— Tom DeLonge

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach…

— Bob Riley

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty…

— Warren E. Burger

“The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital…

— Douglas Wilson

Growing up with a father who was a judge, I heard a lot about justice. But for justice to be applied, punishments…

— Ralph Northam

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

— Angela Davis

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

— Dalai Lama

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

— Ariana Franklin

“…but his problem was infinity; his problem was time running along the x-axis versus stress running along the y-axis, and there never…

— Andrew Barrett

When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When…

— Nicole Miller

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers &…

— Robert E. Lee

“In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the economist embezzlement is the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his…

— Donald Miller

When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the…

— David Grann

We don't have storm troopers that just knock on the door of every American citizen. We don't do that for any crime.…

— Ted Cruz

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parents’ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world.…

— Fernando Vallejo

They [illegals] are bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists.

— Donald Trump

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

— Genghis Khan

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

— Haskell Wexler

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

— Chris Grayling

“The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.”

— Bryant McGill

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

— Simone Weil

“Besides, you are a born woman: feeble when it comes to the sublime, marvelously inventive over crime.”

— Paul Roche

“I won't have any paste-related crimes laid on my head.”

— Veronica Wolff

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

— Bernard Hopkins

Dont punish everybody else for what some people have done to you.

— Joyce Meyer

When residents feel like they can talk to the police, officers can stop crime before it starts.

— Kevin Faulconer

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

— Jurgen Habermas