Crime Quotes

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

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

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

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

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

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

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.