Crime Quotes · Page 94

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

— John Legend

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

— Ovid

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

— Rand Paul

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

— Adolf Hitler

The criminal conduct of Hillary Clinton threatens the foundations of democracy.

— Donald Trump

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

— George W. Bush

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

— Rob Zombie

Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up. To live in this town you must be tough,…

— The Rolling Stones

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last…

— Jerry Rubin

I've grown up around that sort of petty crime, getting into trouble and trying to get out of it. What's funny is…

— Michelle Keegan

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation…

— Ambrose Bierce

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

— Jean Racine

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to…

— Roger Ebert

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in…

— Benjamin Spock

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

“I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided…

— Scott McCloud

“Murder is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals,…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount…

— William Landay

India is the world's most youthful nation. A nation with such youth power cannot dream small. We cannot commit this crime. We…

— Narendra Modi

“What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not…

— Diane Chamberlain

I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a…

— Francisco Goldman

“In TV newsrooms, if it bleeds it leads remains the watchword. A study of 559 newscasts in twenty television markets across the…

— Barry Glassner

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

— George Pelecanos

If you don't start targeting what's feeding crime then we are going to throw good money into a bad scenario.

— Eric Adams

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.”

— Catherine Aird

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

— Stanley Bing

To live with a guilt not doing the duty is the worst self punishment.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Crime is a subject that needs to be looked at in-depth since the percentage is on the rise.

— Sudha Chandran

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

— Ellen Glasgow

That's Your biggest Punishment! We Always Together With You! But Can't Talk With you

— Mak_786

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

— Oscar Wilde

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Give me time to realize my crime. Let me love and steal I have danced inside your eyes.

— Culture Club

“Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.”

— Sophocles

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

— Edward Snowden