Crime Quotes · Page 56

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

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

— Thomas Paine

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

— Tony Benn

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

— Sanjo Jendayi

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White…

— Ralph Abernathy

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

— Joe Abercrombie

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

— Kristin Halbrook

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

— Kathy Reichs

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

— Lucretius

The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more…

— Gerald Celente

Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty.

— Ramman Kenoun

As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures,…

— Miriam A. Ferguson

There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in…

— Marc MacYoung

It's a welcome development that the president is paying attention to the war crimes that are being committed by the Assad regime…

— Kori Schake

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

— Peter Bruce

“Then Cynthia looked at him and smiled, and he knew he couldn’t possibly resist her, no matter what she had done. It…

— Robert Burton Robinson

We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim…

— Felix Dzerzhinsky

'Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what…

— Antony Starr

We are letting people into America that are going to cause problems and crime like you've never seen. We're also letting drugs…

— Donald Trump

In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the…

— Annie Besant

Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo…

— Raymond Chandler

I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this;…

— Ian Rankin

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

— Bernhard Goetz

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

— Lord Hailsham

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

— David D. Aitken

“Put a petty criminal in maximum security prison and he'll come out knowing how to rape and pillage.”

— Michelle Hodkin

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

— Leonard Peltier

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

— Jayson Williams

“Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. “You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.”

— Stefania Mattana

There's a difference between action and violence. Violence isn't fun.

— Hal Needham

“I knew today was gonna be bad, but I never got close to this”

— Ian Ayris

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

— Horace Mann

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

— Peter Kropotkin

If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

— Alice Walker

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

— India Eisley

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

— Alexandre Dumas