Crime Quotes · Page 117

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

— John Dryden

“It’s like a prison. Okay, it is a prison. There’s the problem right there.”

— Gennifer Choldenko

One way to reduce crime and save lives is to target criminals who use guns with tough mandatory minimums.

— Donald Trump

I don't need your prison I don't need your pain. I don't need your decision So what should I do?

— Dope

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

— Henri Rousseau

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

— Cesare Beccaria

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

— Rick Perry

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables…

— Mark Twain

I would agree with [criminal suspects being subjected to a DNA test after arrest]...if that's one step closer to finding out who…

— Erin Brady

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

— Jean Racine

Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle…

— Chesa Boudin

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

— Denise Mina

I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political…

— Assata Shakur

Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form…

— Robert Kennedy

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Imagine a world, if you will, where crime does not exist. A startling proposition that seems outlandish, but our imaginations, of course,…

— Sarah Weinman

One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable…

— Duncan Hunter

With 'River Monsters', I am the investigator: here's the crime scene, I talk to witnesses, I establish a suspects list, I narrow…

— Jeremy Wade

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important…

— Leo Tolstoy

State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,…

— Henry Giroux

I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's…

— Charles Stross

Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the…

— Jeffrey St. Clair

“Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a…

— Euripides

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

— Paul Watson

My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.

— Alan Zweibel

Attention is powerful and can dampen violence even in seemingly worst conditions.

— Zeynep Tufekci

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Trade the truth in for a lie, cheating really aint a crime.

— Miranda Lambert

“Little crimes like mine didn't matter anymore. Little deaths like yours didn't make a sound.”

— Philip Beard

“Money interests fix the punishment for crime in this country [...] consequently there is no moral justice.”

— Edward Anderson

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

— Clarence Darrow

Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.

— Leonard Nimoy

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

— Anonymous

Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

— Julian Bond

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“if lying would be a crime, we would all be in jail right now”

— Pll

“Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in.”

— Suzy Kassem

A freed mind and a venturous spirit will pick the lock upon the doorway of your own prison

— Anonymous