Crime Quotes

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.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

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

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

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

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

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

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.