Crime Quotes

2562 Crime quotes by 1637 unique authors

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything… — Mark Twain
When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime". — Kate Moss
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug… — James Carriger Paine
Petty laws breed great crimes. — Ouida
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government) — Gore Vidal
Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to… — Tom Clancy
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at… — P D Ouspensky
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit… — Harry S. Truman
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure... — Paul Simon
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. — Cecil Beaton
The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the DEATH PENALTY. ADULTERY… — R.J. Rushdoony
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon… — Mark Twain
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we… — Salman Rushdie
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do,… — George Carlin
If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of… — Douglas Coupland
It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science. — William Blake
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to… — Susan B. Anthony
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the… — St. Jerome

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