Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and… — George Gascon
Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a… — Sara Gran
We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell… — Kelly Cutrone
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime. — Arabella Weir
I didn't tie anybody up. And I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I think the law says you can only keep… — Charles Manson
As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is… — Rosa Parks
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose. — Joe Abercrombie
What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime.… — Joe Abercrombie
Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you have a breakdown… — Rush Limbaugh
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime? — Linda Tripp
People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime? — Linda Tripp
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the… — Ayelet Waldman
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. — Sara Paretsky
If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty.… — Pete Rose
I decided to be what crime made of me, — Jean Genet
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey
It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence,… — Thomas Jefferson
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused. — Bobby Sands
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act — Jurgen Habermas
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death… — Immanuel Kant
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in… — Marquis de Sade
What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants.… — Ali Khamenei

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