Crime Quotes

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

Behind every fortune, there's 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.

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?

I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

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

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.