Crime Quotes · Page 80

Hatin life itself, hatin death for takin it's time. Lovin you enough not to commit the ultimate crime.

— Jean Grae

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

— Shirin Neshat

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

— Huey Newton

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

— Woody Allen

“Do not be naive. Criminals cannot go unpunished. Nor can heroes.”

— Devin Grayson

I'll never be a father; unless you got the time it's a crime don't even bother.

— Wycked

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

— George W. Bush

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“becoming a sort of outrage perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against the individual, a crime which…

— Victor Hugo

“The worst crime you can do to yourself is to forget why you chose the path you're on, but keep walking down…

— Stephanie Oakes

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

— James McGreevey

Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us…

— Aaron Hill

And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes…

— David Duke

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like…

— Mordechai Vanunu

I want to bear down on violent crime, in all its aspects from terrorism to sexual offences but definitely knife and gun…

— Cressida Dick

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is…

— Margaret Cavendish

You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in…

— Scarlett Thomas

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then…

— Clifford Irving

“So you shoot people," she said quietly. "You're a killer." "Me? How?" "The papers and the police fixed it up nicely. But…

— Raymond Chandler

A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine…

— John C. Maxwell

“I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But…

— Eric Ambler

I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm…

— Mizuki Nomura

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is…

— Chris Carter

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

— Robert Frost

The political elite prefers to see criminals as victims in need of therapy and TLC.

— Munira Mirza

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

— Nicholas Kristof

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot

— Woody Allen

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

— Victor Hugo

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

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

— John Spenkelink

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Mikhail Bakunin