Crime Quotes
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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. (Quote by - Allen Tucker)
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
We've got to put more emphasis on putting resources towards social problems that lead to a lot of the crime. When you have 40 percent of high school dropouts committing crimes, that can lead to a life of crime. (Quote by - Pete Liakakis)
I have too great a soul to die like a criminal. (Quote by - John Wilkes Booth)
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The heinous nature of the crime. The cover-up afterwards. The denial. They were all, to me, earmarks of someone who was acting as an adult. (Quote by - Gary Gambardella)
I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 months in which I rationalized. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. (Quote by - Ramsey Clark)
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Racine)
The conference will focus on preventing crime in rural areas. People think about crime in urban areas, but there are crimes in rural areas, and we are often limited in our resources. (Quote by - Bill Rose)
This crime is a clear illustration of the danger posed by Jewish settlers to our people, and we want to know why the Israeli government allows them to be armed and commit crime after crime. (Quote by - Mahmoud Abbas)
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime. (Quote by - Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Cecil Salisbury, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury)
And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? (Quote by - Robert Emmet Sherwood)
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law. (Quote by - Seneca)
Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime. (Quote by - Jr)
Crime victimization can dramatically change a person's life. Crime Victims' Rights Week gives Missouri an opportunity to educate our communities about the devastating impacts of violent crimes and also recognize the efforts of professionals and volunteers who dedicate their lives to helping victims of crime. (Quote by - Katharine Barondeau)
Where is the crime? Where is the crime? If trying a suspect accused of shooting at a head of state -- no matter what his name is -- is considered a crime, then you have the head of state in your hands. Try him. (Quote by - Saddam Hussein)
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. (Quote by - Juvenal)
When a murder is satisfied, it isn't the beginning of the story; it's the middle. We shouldn't forget that fact because murder has ripples. You never go back to being the same. The people that investigate these crimes never go back to being the same as they were before they started the investigation. The people's whose lives have been affected, the victim's families, even the murderer themselves are profoundly changed. That's why murder is still the most interesting crime for us to write about, because it is the only crime where something unique is taken away from the world, something that can't be replaced. (Quote by - Ian Rankin)
A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime. (Quote by - Greg Smith)
In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say "Stop, or I'll say stop again.". (Quote by - Robin Williams)
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. - James Anthony Froude, (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)
Businesses have to feel safe or they won't come to the city. If customers don't feel safe they won't patronize the businesses. In economic terms, crime prevention is critical. Even if there's no crime, if you're in fear of it, you're a victim of the crime. (Quote by - John Parker)
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. (Quote by - Ovid)
It is grievous to be caught. (Quote by - Horace)
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
Serenity Inc. invites the community to participate by writing a victim impact letter to be displayed at the event. If you or a family member has been affected by crime, we encourage you to write a victim impact letter. In order to protect victim confidentiality, do not include victim names. This is a chance for crime victims and their families to put into words how crime touched their world. (Quote by - Lori Adkins)
Crime Stoppers has secured the latest technology to make the process of providing tips easier, while at the same time assuring tipsters that their tips cannot be traced back to them. This online e-mail feature is being utilized by Crime Stoppers programs throughout the country and is proven to be an effective tool for both the tipsters and Crime Stoppers. (Quote by - Trish Routte)
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. (Quote by - Lyndon Baines Johnson)
If you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do. But, your crime rate would go down. (Quote by - Bill Bennett)
There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
If anyone asks me what I do, I'd say - I police ads for crimes committed by misplaced letters and mis-spelt words, I enforce the law of grammar and see that writers adhere to it, I am a Creative Supervisor. (Quote by - Prabhudoss Samuel)
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. (Quote by - Henry Thomas Buckle)
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
By their very nature, these kinds of crimes attack the integrity of the judicial system, .. Indeed, that's why they're crimes. To argue that in certain instances these crimes mean little is to say our judicial system means little. I reject that notion. (Quote by - Henry Hyde)
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
The scar (of the crime) is still there. Taylor's trial before the UN court will guarantee justice and peace. Impunity must be discouraged. All those people involved in the war crimes in Liberia and Sierra Leone must be made to account for their crimes. (Quote by - David Anyaele)
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. (Quote by - Marcellinus Ammianus)
A Poem without rhyme is the greatest crime. (Quote by - Dr Hitesh C Sheth)
There is a lot of crossover crime in this area, where you have people who live in Wayne that commit crimes in Oakland or Macomb, or others living in those counties committing crimes in Wayne. (Quote by - Lawrence Meyer)
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. (Quote by - Joseph Fouche)
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
That assumes that trace data is meaningful in indicating that [firearms] dealers are involved in selling guns that are used in crimes. And the problem with that is that the trace data does not include all guns used in crimes, that is to say, not all trace guns are 'crime guns' and not all 'crime guns' are traced. (Quote by - Richard Gardiner)
You are not to do evil that good may come of it. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
A crafty knave needs no broker. (Quote by - Horace)
Crime is a product of social excess. (Quote by - Lenin, Vladimir)
When people come together to commit a crime, they are all charged separately as if they each committed the crime. It doesn't matter how he actually died as long as they were working together to commit the crime. (Quote by - Lee Cohen)
Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities. (Quote by - Bobby Scott)
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-lytton)
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
We can use evidence of homicides committed in other jurisdictions, because under the Virginia statute we aren't trying those other crimes, we're using those other crimes to elevate our crime into the capital murder section. (Quote by - Robert Horan)
I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. (Quote by - Bill Bennett)
There is no such thing as a 'war crime' beacuse war itself is a crime. (Quote by - Robert Newberry Frank)
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. (Quote by - William Cowper)
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Most serial killers — and I do believe this was a serial-killing crime — are anger retaliatory killers. They tend to do crimes that are much quicker. But this crime is what we call a sexually sadistic serial killer who very much enjoys the entire process of the torture and the murder. (Quote by - Pat Brown)
Crimes against humanity are'nt a result of war, War is a result of crimes against humanity. (Quote by - Kevin J Powers)
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime. (Quote by - Conte Vittorio Alfieri)
The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime (Ex. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable crime, and is therefore a capital crime (Lev. 24:16). (Quote by - Gary North)
The fact is, the federal law is perfectly clear. At the heart of this operation was a federal crime. The president has already conceded that he personally ordered that crime and renewed that order at least 30 times. This would clearly satisfy the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors for the purpose of an impeachment. (Quote by - Jonathan Turley)
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. (Quote by - Arthur Bugs Baer)
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
Nobody out there can say that if the state passed a hate-crime law any crime would decrease. People who commit heinous crimes should be punished. (Quote by - Gayle Ruzicka)
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime. (Quote by - Charles H. Parkhurst)
Unfortunately, no tangible breakthrough was made with regard to crime in the army, where hazing accounts for 25 percent of crimes. Altogether, 2,609 servicemen were convicted of crimes of this kind. (Quote by - Alexander Savenkov)
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. (Quote by - Ovid)
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Racine)
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. (Quote by - George Washington)
Corruption is simply crime without conscience. (Quote by - George Marek)
Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime. (Quote by - Henry Lee)
But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. (Quote by - Bill Bennett)
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. (Quote by - Voltaire)
All three of these are factors that put children at risk for crime when they grow up. Unwanted children are at risk for crime, legalized abortion reduced the number of unwanted children. Therefore, legalized abortion should have reduced crime. (Quote by - Steve Levitt)
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left? (Quote by - Bob Edwards)
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?. (Quote by - George Carlin)
This is a case where the wrong man went to prison and the real person committed some awful crimes, all because of the utter incompetence of the HPD crime lab. This is the face of the crime-lab debacle. This is the human damage. (Quote by - Barry Scheck)
I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt crime every day in the world, from emotional crimes to international crimes, and it often carries rewards. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
If one commits a crime or crimes, justice is supposed to take place, especially if (the crimes) involve pulling the economy down. I will not comment much on that subject as that would depend upon evidence gathered by the police. (Quote by - Patrick Chinamasa)
This is a case where the wrong man went to prison and the real person committed some awful crimes, all because of the utter incompetence of the HPD crime lab, .. This is the face of the crime-lab debacle. This is the human damage. (Quote by - Barry Scheck)
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. (Quote by - Duchess Of Windsor)
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. (Quote by - Ovid)
I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, earning both a lifesaving award and the Secretary of State's Medal of Honor during that time. We like to think that Macoupin County is safe from the problems of the big city, but unfortunately, violent crimes and methamphetamine production are on the rise in rural areas. My experience working in St. Clair and Madison counties will better able me to confront methamphetamine production and violent crime head-on while still understanding the rural needs of Macoupin County. (Quote by - Don Albrecht)
Law enforcement agencies are getting increasingly sensitive that certain crimes are hate motivated. The attorney general's office is constantly working with local agencies, training them on how to spot hate crimes, how to be more helpful to victims of hate crimes and how to do a more thorough job of reporting to the state. (Quote by - Jon Peck)
I think that what we're going to have to do is bring ourselves up with the rapid technology in crime. Crime is not one-on-one anymore. Crime happens hundreds of miles away with a couple of keystrokes on a computer. And in order to protect our residents from those types of things .. I think we have to be on top of that. We have to be well-versed in what's out there. So I see us moving in that direction. (Quote by - Mark Smith)
We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's 'Strike Hard' crime campaign mentality is still prevalent, at least in some parts of the country. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments. (Quote by - Mark Allison)
We were here to discuss hate crimes legislation, and what the federal government can do to assist state and local law enforcement in not only enforcing hate crimes laws, but to help us identify and encourage the reporting and appropriate prosecution of hate crimes across the United States. (Quote by - Robert Olson)
