Crime Quotes · Page 92

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I'm a businessman not a criminal. I make records and I'm not into that game.

— Mark Morrison

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

— Alan Moore

“I want to know if it is a crime to live as you are, when you are different from others.”

— Kotomine Kirei

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

— Howard Crosby

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

— James Russell Lowell

When violence enters the house, law and justice flee through the window.

— Vikrant Parsai

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“LOOK! EVEN I HAVE DONE WRONG, I HAVE BEEN SENT INTO JAIL. WHAT IS THE USE OF STRIKE? GO STRIKE. BUT THE…

— Fahmid Hassan Prohor

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext…

— Voltaire

You do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that for…

— Kevin Sabet

“A young girl’s body is the most dangerous place in the world, as it is the spot where violence is most likely…

— Heather O'Neill

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather…

— Belle Boyd

“Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their…

— Rebecca Solnit

“And with the laws, the punishments—and there were only two—a quick and murderous fight or ostracism; and ostracism was the worst.”

— John Steinbeck

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many…

— Bertolt Brecht

“Listen to me you piece of shit, if you ever give the press information about me, my parents or even breathe a…

— Nina D'Angelo

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be…

— Julian Assange

Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy…

— Rob Thomas

The worst criminals of our time are the US and UK governments. Both are devoid of all integrity, all honor, all mercy,…

— Paul Craig Roberts

“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and…

— Laurie Matthew

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper…

— Gerald R. Ford

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded,…

— Peter McWilliams

“Gods, I love this place," Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. "Sometimes I think this whole city was put here…

— Scott Lynch

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

— Yancy Butler

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is…

— Matt Taibbi

“Dance...even when you're alone; it makes you feel good.”

— Wahletta Hale

I think when people accuse you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard.

— Mitt Romney

“We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.”

— Marcel Proust

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

— Henry Miller

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A prisoner is committed for punishment whereas a sovereign is committed for privilege.

— Robert D Dangoor

“Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

— Samuel Richardson

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“Revenge has a strange taste, not sweet, nor nasty, just unpalatable, like prison food.”

— Laura Elliot

Sophisticated criminal organizations have one incentive: money. They find a need and fill it.

— Michelle Steel

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.”

— B. Barmanbek