Crime Quotes · Page 73

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“It should not be a crime to discuss any idea, however outrageous ”

— Pat Califia

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

— Malcolm X

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

— Nick Cave

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

— Steve Schirripa

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

— Roger Ebert

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

— Ritu Ghatourey

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and…

— Jim Ramstad

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless…

— Rosa Parks

As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional.…

— Johnny Carson

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to…

— John Ashcroft

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

— Dan Savage

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War…

— Coleen Rowley

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

— Bill Maher

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

— Simon Wiesenthal

The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds…

— Don Kates

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,'…

— Jamey Sheridan

“Perfect crime,' he said softly. 'Yes?' 'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her…

— Jane Rogers

“For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish…

— Carolyn Maull McKinstry

“Those who have been swept within the criminal justice system know that the way the system actually works bears little resemblance to…

— Michelle Alexander

Howard Marks is very intelligent and well read, eloquent, witty, charming. I think it was those qualities that got him through. I…

— Rhys Ifans

“But there are no criminals here Just people surviving against all odds Multi and never ending circumstances of racial repression Class war…

— Jonathan Daniel Gomez

“It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do about…

— Agatha Christie

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

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

— Anonymous

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

— Jake LaMotta

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

— Susan L. Taylor

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

— Thomas Paine

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

— Laurence J. Peter

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

— John Spenkelink

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

— Frances Wright

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

— Tehmina Durrani

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

— Yo Gotti

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

— Pierre Corneille

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

— Laeta Kalogridis

“...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.”

— Émile Gaboriau