Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft… — Charles Frazier
Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime — Ben Mezrich
The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had… — Kumi Naidoo
Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains… — Winston Smith
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. — Jack Valenti
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of… — Aurora Levins Morales
Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder. — Garry McCarthy
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border. — Edward Blake
Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in… — Catherine Crier
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything… — Catherine Crier
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow… — Allan Pinkerton
Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous… — Ariel Dorfman
If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing or… — Carl Panzram
The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum, — Phil Zimmermann
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the… — Robley Wilson
No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . . — Swami Vivekananda
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone,… — Albert Camus
I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving. — Yancy Butler
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
There is no greater crime than desire. — Laozi
We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home… — Jane D. Hull
We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any… — J. Irwin Miller
Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked. — Matthew Vaughn
The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal… — James T. Walsh
You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder… — Thomas Young

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