Crime Quotes
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
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.
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.
Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized
The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.
I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.
Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.
Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.
Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.
Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.
Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!
The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.
