Crime Quotes

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George Farquhar

Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel Defoe

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles E Hughes

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]
Michael D Barnes

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Geoffrey Fisher

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
Juvenal

'Punk Rock Is Not A Crime!'
Deryck Whibley

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Adlai Stevenson

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
Daniel O'Connell

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
James Gates Percival

Such crimes has superstition caused.
Lucretius

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus Darwin

The greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey Clark

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar Hoover

Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine Dunn

I am not sorry for my crime.
Leon Czolgosz

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac

The worst crime is faking it.
Kurt Cobain

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda Adler

Not failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell Lowell

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
Boris Johnson

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S Thompson

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon

The response to these inhumane crimes wherever they take place - be it London, New York, Moscow or other countries - should be absolute condemnation.

All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.
[on the London terrorist attack, 7th July 2005]
Vladimir Putin

Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Leonard Davids

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil Beaton

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore De Balzac

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma Goldman

A first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre Corneille

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion Barry

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
Diane Abbott

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P G Wodehouse

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal
Friedrich Engels

I have enjoyed presenting Crimewatch but I felt that it was time for me to leave the show [on leaving before he was kicked out by the BBC]
Nick Ross

Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
Hannah More

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour
Peter Hain

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
Georg Lichtenberg



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