Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. — Alex Cox
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's… — Terrence Rafferty
If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance. — Daniel Guerin
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that… — Charles Guggenheim
Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all. — Brad Pitt
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization. — Jacque Fresco
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. — Samuel Johnson
For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able… — Stevie Wonder
You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They… — Misha Glenny
Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together. — Josiah Warren
If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything,… — Gloria Steinem
Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if… — Dennis Kucinich
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. — Roger Ebert
All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that… — Russell Brand
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but… — Eugene V. Debs
The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms.… — Philip Wollen
War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead. — Ernest Hemingway
Dressing down is a crime against humanity. — Simon Doonan
Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes. — Pope Francis
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime. — Jose Bergamin
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and… — Jeff Cooper
Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and… — Eric Weiner

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