Quotes on Crime

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Author: Ralph Abernathy

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

Author: Freda Adler

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Author: Vittorio Alfieri

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Author: Vittorio Alfieri

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Author: Barbara Amiel

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

Author: Wally Amos

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.

Author: Hannah Arendt

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.

Author: Hannah Arendt

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

Author: John Ashcroft

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Author: Honore Balzac

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Author: Georges Bataille

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

Author: Rand Beers

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

Author: Jose Bergamin

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.

Author: Marion Berry

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

Author: Tim Bishop

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Author: Andre Braugher

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Author: Joe Briggs

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

Author: Pat Brown

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

Author: Yancy Butler

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Author: George Carlin

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Author: Maurice Chevalier

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Author: James Chiles

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.

Author: Margaret Cho

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Author: Winston Churchill

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

Author: Marcus Cicero

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Author: Emile Cioran

The worst crime is faking it.

Author: Kurt Cobain

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

Author: Howard Coble

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Author: Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Author: Pierre Corneille

A first impulse was never a crime.

Author: Pierre Corneille

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

Author: Pierre Corneille

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.

Author: Jim Costa

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

Author: Alex Cox

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

Author: Stanley Crouch

I am not sorry for my crime.

Author: Leon Czolgosz

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

Author: Josephus Daniels

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

Author: Christopher Darden

Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.

Author: Leonard Davids

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

Author: Rebecca Davis

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Author: Jeffery Deaver

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Author: David Dinkins

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Author: Arthur Doyle

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Author: Robert Duvall

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

Author: Aaron Eckhart

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Author: Friedrich Engels

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Author: Quintus Ennius

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

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

Author: George Farquhar

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

Author: George Farquhar

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

Author: Antonia Fraser

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Author: Elizabeth Fry

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Author: Emma Goldman

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

Author: Sue Grafton

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Author: Jupiter Hammon

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.

Author: Patty Hearst

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

Author: Betty Hill

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

Author: J. Hoover

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

Author: Bob Hope

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Author: Horace

Despotism is a long crime.

Author: Victor Hugo

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

Author: John Huston

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

Author: Bianca Jagger

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Author: Justinian Justinian I

Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty.

Author: Ramman Kenoun

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Author: Jack Kerouac

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

Author: Jack Kevorkian

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

Author: Eli Khamarov

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.

Author: Steig Larsson

Crime is a product of social excess.

Author: Vladimir Lenin

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Author: Jay Leno

The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.

Author: Jay Leno

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

Author: G. Liddy

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

Author: Rush Limbaugh

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Author: Rush Limbaugh

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Author: Blanche Lincoln

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

Author: Titus Livius

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

Author: David Lloyd

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?

Author: Lindsay Lohan

Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime.

Author: Henry Lucas

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

Author: Francis Maude

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Author: Barry McCaffrey

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

Author: Thomas Meagher

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

Author: Marty Meehan

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

Author: Carrie Meek

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

Author: Mark Millar

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Author: Henry Miller

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Author: John Morley

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

Author: George Moscone

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.

Author: Robert Mueller

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

Author: Peggy Noonan

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Author: Ovid

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

Author: Sara Paretsky

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

Author: Sara Paretsky

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

Author: James Penney

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.

Author: Charles Rangel

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Author: Maximilien Robespierre

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Author: Will Rogers

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

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Author: John Ruskin

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.

Author: Mike Rutherford

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

Author: Jessica Savitch

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Author: Lucius Seneca

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Author: Lucius Seneca

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Author: Lucius Seneca

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.

Author: John Shadegg

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

Author: Tupac Shakur

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

Author: Tupac Shakur

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

Author: O. Simpson

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Author: Frederick Soddy

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

Author: Cliff Stearns

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

Author: Max Stirner

There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

Author: Louis Stokes

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Author: Charles Sturt

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Author: Tacitus

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Author: Charles Talleyrand

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Author: Charles Talleyrand

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

Author: Emmanuel Teney

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

Author: Chuck Todd

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

Author: Linda Tripp

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.

Author: Mordechai Vanunu

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

Author: Jesse Ventura

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

Author: Robert Walpole

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

Author: Stand Watie

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Author: Evelyn Waugh

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

Author: Jerry Weller

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.

Author: Ida Wells

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.

Author: Ian Williams

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Author: James Wilson