Crime Quotes · Page 90

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

— Andrew Young

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

— Grover Cleveland

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

— Marquis de Sade

When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison.

— Clive Cussler

“Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills”

— Kenneth Eade

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

— Richard Griffiths

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

— Bill James

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

— Don DeLillo

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

— Frank Herbert

“Sex Piston, if you don’t quit bugging your sister, the police are going to be charging me with another crime,” Knox threatened.”

— Jamie Begley

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse…

— Jupiter Hammon

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're…

— Noah Baumbach

You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality.…

— Molly Crabapple

How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make…

— Brian Regan

The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less…

— Jonathan Kozol

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man…

— Lucy Freeman

Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy…

— John Kiriakou

“In most crime novels the violent act, usually the murder, is the engine. Take that away and there is little left to…

— Mo Hayder

Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts…

— Piper Kerman

Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you…

— Keanu Reeves

When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble…

— David Roberts

“I've been in prison, you see. Only three weeks, and only on remand,but when you've had to play chess twice a day…

— Hugh Laurie

“Our entire lives we witness individuals, the ones who break some of the most culturally sensitive moral codes, ruined permanently by the…

— Criss Jami

If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba,…

— Noam Chomsky

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

— Alan Dershowitz

“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.”

— Pat Conroy

“Was he in trouble? Women were so good at saying everything was fine while plotting punishment.”

— Sarah E. Morin

Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.

— Dido Harding

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

— Nancy Grace

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

— James Cook

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

— Rick Steves

“Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.”

— Steve Maraboli

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

— Samuel Johnson

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

— Susan Rosenberg

“In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology.”

— Eula Biss

“The worst is when people - knowingly or not - carry prison inside themselves. - 9-10 P.M. Poems ”

— Nâzım Hikmet

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy…

— Janet Reno

“If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

— Robert Breault

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

— Jair Bolsonaro