Crime Quotes

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.

I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?

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.

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 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.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.