Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing… — Rob Brezsny
You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is. — Willie Brown
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely… — Oscar Wilde
That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in… — John F. Kennedy
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents — Edward Gibbon
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction. — Aristotle
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims. — Bob Riley
I spend my time on Crimewatch appealing for criminals on the run. Domestic violence is one of the few crimes I can think of where… — Fiona Bruce
Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get… — Honor Blackman
The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It… — Jon Kyl
The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise… — Rebecca Solnit
The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime. — Noam Chomsky
The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are… — Deepak Chopra
The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on… — Kenneth Lay
I wanted to take part in the Women's Aid Real Man campaign because domestic violence affects so many women and children during their lifetime and… — Duncan Bannatyne
Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself. — Jenna Miscavige Hill
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a… — Frederick Douglass
I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or… — Tom Araya
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom. — Malcolm Gladwell
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. — Vittorio Alfieri
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. — Vittorio Alfieri
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. — Vittorio Alfieri
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. — Vittorio Alfieri
Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against… — Edward Snowden

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