Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not… — Jeff Cooper
I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can make sure that… — Barack Obama
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun… — Alex Kozinski
Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us. — Pierre Corneille
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are… — William Blackstone
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them… — Mark Twain
Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate… — Inez Milholland
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether… — Mahatma Gandhi
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part… — Charles Eliot Norton
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is… — Mark Twain
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. — Horace
This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents… — Lady Gaga
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,… — Abraham Lincoln
The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. — William Jennings Bryan
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from… — Lenny Bruce
There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and… — Unknown Author
Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong. — Bob Hope
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in… — Simone Weil
Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime. — Yiyun Li
Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if… — Unknown Author
There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State… — Benjamin Moser
I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill — Patty Duke
I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and… — Barack Obama
We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. — Barack Obama

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