Crime Quote by Jessica Mitford

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

— James Anthony Froude

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

— Noam Chomsky

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

— Freda Adler

To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject

— Chinese Proverbs

Crime generally punishes itself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“I write that crime is an unlawful act of violence that can be committed by anyone, and that punishment is the consequence designed for…

— Mahbod Seraji

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are…

— Jack Kevorkian

Crimes generally punish themselves.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

“In the South, there was a gentle tradition of 'it's only a crime if you get caught doing it.' Sometimes it was known as…

— C. L. Bevill

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into…

— Emma Goldman

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni