Crime Quotes · Page 62

“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

— Don DeLillo

“Excessive rewards are a sign of desperation. Excessive punishments are a sign of exhaustion.”

— Sun Tzu

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

If love is a sin, punish me by kisses. And if love is a crime, I wanna be your victim.

— Ritu Ghatourey

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

— Roger Ebert

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

— Steve Schirripa

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

— Donald Rumsfeld

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never…

— Booth Tarkington

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

— Ariana Franklin

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women…

— Germaine Greer

“If punishment is at all proportionate to the offense, then power becomes watered. The only way you generate the proper attitude of…

— Norman Mailer

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's…

— Tony Randall

Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime

— Alanna Knight

I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment -…

— Joe Gilgun

The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live…

— Shauna Singh Baldwin

Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the…

— Rowan Atkinson

The more money women make, the less violence, the less sexual crimes against women. Everything horrific and misogynistic declines. But then what…

— Stephen Marche

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. But Putin - I don't know about women, but…

— Vladimir Voinovich

I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm…

— Aaron Sorkin

I haven't been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f - ed off with those…

— Chelsea Handler

A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so…

— Alex Kotlowitz

The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

— Timothy Leary

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

— Seneca the Younger

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

— Eric Goode

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

— Emile M. Cioran

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

— Anonymous

“Face it, if crime did not pay there would be very few criminals”

— Laughton Lewis Burdock

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

— Tony Blair

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

— Tom Robbins

What a disgrace! Who do I feel sorry for? Smashed and raped! Not again. This is a real crime.

— Korn

Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.

— Pierre Corneille

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

— Yo Gotti

I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

— Tehmina Durrani

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

— Frances Wright

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

— Laeta Kalogridis