Crime Quotes · Page 122

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives

— Nicholas Sparks

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

— Steven Seagal

I'm addicted to your punishment and you're the master and I am waiting for disaster.

— Papa Roach

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

— Mark Frost

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

— Anthony Burgess

“When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.”

— Daniel Suarez

“I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.”

— Gene Tierney

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as…

— John Brown

[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious…

— Avis Bohlen

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the…

— Rodney Dangerfield

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

— Philip Zimbardo

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in…

— William Shakespeare

I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States…

— Conor Oberst

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite…

— Glenn Greenwald

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right…

— Craig Charles

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique,…

— Robert Ben Garant

“The conscious or unconscious decision to use violence, or to do most anything, involves many mental and emotional processes, but they usually…

— Gavin de Becker

“The racism of the colonial state was also reflected in its penal code. The Criminal Tribes Legislation, 1911, gave authority to the…

— Shashi Tharoor

Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning…

— Yousef Munayyer

It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“In order for punishment not to be, in every instance, an act of violence of one or many against a private citizen,…

— Steven Briggs

I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand…

— Jodi Picoult

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a…

— Edmund White

“The control of violence is the most important dilemma every society faces.”

— James Dale Davidson

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

— Aaron Eckhart

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

— Victor Hugo

“The crimes of the moonlight melonmounter followed him as crimes will.”

— Cormac McCarthy

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

— Jeremy Aldana

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

— Al Sharpton

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

— Bob Dylan

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

— Ronald Reagan

“you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.”

— Neil Gaiman

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

— Sinead O'Connor

Hip-hop is not about crime. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster.

— KRS-One

The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

— Adam Cohen

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

— Tom Robbins

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.”

— Caroline B. Cooney