Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There is a vast difference… — Unknown Author
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,… — Grant Morrison
In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of… — Jim Costa
The international community faces ever growing phenomena that transcend borders. I am specifically referring to terrorism, transnational organized crime, the global drug problem, corruption, traffic… — Unknown Author
There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's… — Harry Browne
Taking the life of another is always a moral crime. — Angelo Scola
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life — Egon Schiele
To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime. — Unknown Author
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful… — Federico Garcia Lorca
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against… — George Monbiot
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution. — Marie Howe
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in… — Joe Baca
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it. — Emile Durkheim
As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of… — Howard Dean
People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they… — Frank Ocean
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general… — Cesare Beccaria
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve… — Robert Browning
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American… — Armistead Maupin
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes… — Thomas More
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime. — Michael Bay
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime. — Edgar Degas
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it… — Edgar Degas
Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms, — Steve Largent

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