Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. — Tom T. Hall
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done… — Damon Knight
Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new… — Shintaro Ishihara
Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make… — Bruce Schneier
We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of… — Vicente Fox
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not;… — William Shakespeare
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude. — Ambrose Bierce
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford… — John Greenleaf Whittier
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would… — Albert Bandura
There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime. — Paul Simon
During this Christmas season, when the world seems to be in turmoil, wars are breaking out in different places, crime is rampant, and many things… — Billy Graham
The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception… — Adrian Rogers
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time — Robert Earl Keen
That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair. — William Wordsworth
Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers. — William Spencer
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime. — W. S. Gilbert
It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered… — Steve Fowler
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. — Stand Watie
The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals… — Edward S. Herman
Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS… — Alan Mollohan
Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the… — Joseph Sobran
One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture — Multatuli
There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart. — Multatuli
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the… — Helen Keller

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