Crime Quotes · Page 123

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

— Emma Goldman

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

— Emmanuel Jal

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Violence and disrespect for your country are going to get you nowhere.

— Joey Heatherton

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

— Ernest Hemingway

My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated.

— Christopher Titus

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

— George Carlin

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

— Barack Obama

“gun crime: it wasn’t equally distributed throughout black America. Rather, it was concentrated among the poorest blacks, who were forced into living…

— James Forman Jr

“I’m going to make you feel so good,” I swore to her, “that you’re going to not just scream my name, but…

— Shay Savage

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

— William J. Clinton

“The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.”

— Bryant McGill

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

— Hillary Clinton

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to…

— Janet Reno

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t…

— Stephen King

You can remain friends, even without EU membership. The Prüm Convention, according to which data for combatting crime is exchanged, is a…

— Geert Wilders

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you…

— Alexander Berkman

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple…

— Jamaal Bowman

If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is…

— Claire McCaskill

“Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold…

— Brenna Yovanoff

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood,…

— Thomas More

Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain…There was never a place for me in the scheme of things…I had become a living fantasy…

— Dennis Nilsen

“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are…

— Matt Ridley

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

— Dean Cavanagh

I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.

— Jim Brown

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

— Philip Davies

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

— Jean Racine

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

— Nat Hentoff

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

— Olavo de Carvalho

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

— Vittorio Alfieri

“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.”

— Joseph McElroy

“We are in the era of the silent crimes against humanity.”

— Steven Magee

“For the violence in the dark streets, education is the best street light!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!”

— John Byrne

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

— Theodore Roosevelt

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

— Ronald Reagan

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

— Leo Tolstoy

When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen