Crime Quote by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”

— Agatha Christie

“We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.”

— Edith Hamilton

“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?”

— George Gordon Byron

“there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in his path,…

— Agatha Christie

“Except for these unfathomable mass murders. But these are infinitely more difficult to prevent. While law deters the rational, it has far less effect…

— Charles Krauthammer

“but that the production of lawlessness was an appropriate way to find murderers who could be recruited for organized actions.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into…

— Whoopi Goldberg

“The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“Murder doesn’t leave anyone innocent. It shouldn’t.”

— J.D. Robb

“It's so much easier to define crime than it is to put your finger on justice.”

— David Hewson

“What good is seeking a greater law, when that law can be the whims of a man either stupid or ruthless?”

— Brandon Sanderson