Crime Quotes

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

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

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

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.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

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.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.