Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Crime generally punishes itself. — Oliver Goldsmith
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes — George Will
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden.… — Georges Bataille
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our… — Marquis de Sade
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. — Aristotle
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. — Horace
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile,… — Michel Foucault
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not… — Emile Durkheim
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all. — William Shakespeare
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. — George Farquhar
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization. — Havelock Ellis
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. — Karl Kraus
He threatens many that hath injured one. — Ben Jonson
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. — Al Capone
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. — Allen Tucker
Things I wonder about the FBI's list of the "Ten Most Wanted" criminals: When they catch a guy and he comes off the list, does… — George Carlin
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. — Oscar Wilde
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good… — Oscar Wilde
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. — Oscar Wilde
If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. — Peire Cardenal
And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? — Robert E. Sherwood
We knew the front door was always left open, but we broke in just to keep in practice. Doxy turned all the Washburn family photos… — Woody Allen
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in… — Henry George

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