Crime Quotes

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.