Crime Quotes · Page 84

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

— Jerry Brown

“I’d rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“This was it, his life of crime and recreation about to officially start.”

— Neil Walker

“I agree that dreaming in not a crime, so I can dream as big as I can.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

— Letitia James

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

— Thomas Jefferson

Dont feel guilty for a crime you have not committed commit it and be guilt free

— Amit Abraham

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

— Seneca the Younger

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of…

— Phillip Moffitt

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden…

— Tiffany Madison

I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted…

— James T. Rapier

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would…

— Allen Tate

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

— Antony Beevor

I've bought the same used car from the same man since I was 16 - a Buick every time. They always work,…

— John Waters

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm…

— Gary Numan

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while…

— Jim Goad

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,…

— Mervyn Peake

I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support…

— Claire McCaskill

I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my…

— Cecily McMillan

When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“The outcome of all maliciousness, that Heaven hates, is harm: and every such outcome, hurts others, either by force or deceit. But…

— Dante Alighieri

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and…

— William C. Bryant

“A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law."…

— Larken Rose

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

— Yolanda King

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

— Terry Pratchett

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

— Friedrich Engels

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

— Horace

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

— Jim Starlin

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

— Vladimir Nabokov

If being sexy was a crime then you are guilty as charged

— Millie_Darlington

Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It's just an animal house.

— Lil Boosie

We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

— Ezra Furman

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

— Max Lerner

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

— Multatuli

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

— Friedrich Ebert

“Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.”

— Bryant McGill

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

— Julius Caesar