Crime Quotes

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature...

A glass poured to air for the one who sits with us unseen; the patron and protector, the Crooked War...

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons a...

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons a...

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons a...

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons a...

In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt...

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...

There was nothing … and nothing … and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sou...

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance ...

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in t...

Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like ...

It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to...

These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chas...

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great Go...

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour b...

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they...

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some ...

For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It w...

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

In a secular democracy, a person is supposed to be punished only when he breaks the law; never becau...

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been pun...

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from I...

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’...

Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "...

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. ...

When I started off, I believed that the true determinant of how great I was was through my lifestyle...

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religi...

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible....

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

President Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.D...

A curse burns bright on crime.

Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off be...

It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But y...

I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin w...

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that the...

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the peopl...

It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do abo...

The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe ...

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A crimin...

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was...

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"It will not."If...

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absu...

Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discover...

She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too ...

For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act ...

Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can nev...

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everyb...

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

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear bei...

But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons ...

How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of t...

And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smil...

The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, appr...

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convin...

The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals tog...

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, ...

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most m...

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our professi...

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how...

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a speciali...

That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a pe...

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.