Crime Quotes

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has be...

The best criterion by which to decide whether someone has been forced outside the pale of the law is...

As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable...

I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I st...

I mean, the ones on trial are not like me in any way: they're a different kind of human being. They ...

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...

Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all th...

And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man ...

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it the...

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to ...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

Well, sir to say that when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable,...

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares...

...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not...

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually ...

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is c...

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusua...

I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.There's Heaven then there's Hell niggasOne day your cruis...

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lo...

I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious."Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shut...

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it...

It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in orde...

Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere...

It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay s...

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for ...

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier ...

In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the ec...

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...

Statistically, the odds that any given rape was committed by a serial offender are around 90 percent...

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relat...

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going throu...

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the...

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is n...

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regime...

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold t...

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hid...

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally...

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and p...

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

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

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Atheism is aristocratic the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes...

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

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man ...

Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union:Nine months Landsman's bee...

It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I do...

Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowled...

The public execution did not re-establish justice; it reactivated power. In the seventeenth century,...

The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not...

In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted ...

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under...

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...

That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute...

    "You ever been arrested before?"    "No sir. This is my first time."    "The first time this wee...

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an ou...

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live...

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if the...

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because...

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentenc...

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which ...

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Som...

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagi...

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

None of these apparent sightings interested Hawksmoor, since it was quite usual for members of the p...

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who ...

I am the scourge of God

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than inve...

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates h...

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia d...

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all ...

He only may chastise who loves.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

It's goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy r...

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden countr...