Crime Quotes · Page 121

“Our love like this, grown while we committed crimes—it's going to destroy us.”

— Kristin Halbrook

“She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.”

— J.D. Robb

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

— Stefan Zweig

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

— Sissela Bok

“Violence is there because you have not grown your potential for love; it is the absence of love.”

— Osho

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

— Philip K. Dick

“Your mind is your playground or your prison, and you get to choose which one it will be.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

— Tony Benn

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that…

— George Bernard Shaw

Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.

— Alicia Garza

“Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws…

— A.J. Quinnell

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or…

— Sophie Hannah

I know from my nightclub days that when local cops need to show a fall in crime for political reasons there are…

— Dominic Cummings

Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to…

— John Hickenlooper

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based…

— Bob Filner

“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with…

— Barry N. Malzberg

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has…

— Terry Eagleton

For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part…

— Marcia Clark

“The killer's name was Michael Stone and he was a known psychopath. He had previous convictions. But the law stated that only…

— Jon Ronson

“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at…

— Immanuel Kant

But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well…

— Charles Ferguson

We think every state should have hate crimes laws. It's worth sharing that five states today don't have hate crimes laws, including…

— Jonathan Greenblatt

We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going…

— Jacque Fresco

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

— Thomas Paine

“...between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.”

— Saul Bellow

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

— Pat Brown

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

— Priti Patel

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

— Charles Baudelaire

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

— Denise Mina

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

— Jerry Brown

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

— Scott Turow

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

— Max Frisch

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found…

— Wilkie Collins

“familiar with Scandinavian crime fiction – Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Karin Fossum, Håkan”

— Stieg Larsson

Perhaps the worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

— Anonymous

Till there will be injustice , there will be violence. *senora*

— Senoraroy

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

— Randy Travis