Crime Quotes · Page 66

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.

— Rhymefest

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

— Robi Ludwig

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

— Anonymous

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

— Epictetus

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

— Patricia Cornwell

TV's a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

— Abby Lee Miller

“I'm the worst kind of criminal." "And what kind is that?" "The kind that got caught.”

— Brandon Mull

“Sex and violence ... are the two great engines of the world.”

— James Carlos Blake

Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think if there is to be a crime of 'political genocide' it needs to be formulated with great care and precision…

— Richard A. Falk

“There are criminals everywhere these days, you know. One might end up missing the police! Who would have thought that possible?” The…

— Steen Langstrup

The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going…

— Ian Brown

Any effort to destabilise any government, taking refuge in one's ideology for promoting violence, conspiring to destabilise and break the country, I…

— Rajnath Singh

“The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and…

— Leonard Wibberley

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

— Soren Kierkegaard

At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.

— Jeff Sessions

The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent…

— Deng Xiaoping

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong.…

— George Zebrowski

I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in…

— Johnny Cash

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive…

— Ban Ki-moon

The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so…

— Benjamin Carson

“Justice is the state that exists when there is equity, balance, and harmony in relationships and in society. Injustice is the state…

— Ken Wytsma

“None of these apparent sightings interested Hawksmoor, since it was quite usual for members of the public to come forward with such…

— Peter Ackroyd

“As an artist you look into yourself to understand the human potential to be all kinds of things that are not necessarily…

— David Cronenberg

“How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

— Frankie Valli

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

— Chris Womersley

“HOMELESSNESS...is neither a disease nor crime...but a very serious problem!”

— Timothy Pina

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

— Megan Abbott

“Jesus honey, your husband ain’t dead, he’s in hiding.” He growled, watching her visibly flinch. - Jase Devlin”

— Nina D'Angelo

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

— Peter O'Toole

The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.

— John Wooden

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can be strong till the end of time, but to be wrong it doesn't matter is for what crime

— JMM Luhondo

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

— Jeffery Deaver

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

— David Lidington

“The more we tolerate crime, the more crime we will have.”

— David Oliver

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

— James Russell Lowell

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

— Edgar Degas