Crime Quotes

Crime, my friend. It's not always a complex mystery solved by a clever detective in the end. Often, it's the result of despair, greed, or sheer human weakness. It's the shadow of society, the ugly face we prefer not to see, but it exists, lurking in the dark corners. So how do the wise contemplate injustice, punishment, and the nature of evil? Discover their reflections in these quotes.

Quote by C.S. Lewis: If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which o...
Quote by Honoré de Balzac: Behind every great fortune lies a great crime....
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is crimin...
Quote by Mark Twain: Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this fl...
Quote by Mitch Hedberg: I want to rob a bank with a BB gun.
Quote by Mark Twain: Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth....
Quote by William Shakespeare: Glory grows guilty of detested crimes....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims....
Quote by Theodore Roosevelt: A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university educatio...
Quote by Bill Gates: Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner c...
Quote by Mark Twain: If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?...
Quote by George Carlin: O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to assoc...
Quote by Victor Hugo: The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if ...
Quote by Lao Tzu: The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced....
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against ...
Quote by Nelson Mandela: Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals...
Quote by Voltaire: Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes....
Quote by Albert Camus: For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold...
Quote by Plato: When there is crime in society, there is no justice....
Quote by Victor Hugo: We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals dis...
Quote by Erma Bombeck: If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award ...
Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: Collective crimes incriminate no one....
Quote by Malcolm X: [People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmat...
Quote by Alice Morse Earle: The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many ...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it....
Quote by Voltaire: The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes....
Quote by Malcolm X: The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get...
Quote by Will Rogers: We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity....
Quote by Albert Camus: Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes....
Quote by Voltaire: History is the study of the world's crime...
Quote by Albert Camus: Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the super...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money....
Quote by Mark Twain: The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods....
Quote by Mike Tyson: I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money....
Quote by Ronald Reagan: One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it....
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for th...
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law....
Quote by Mark Twain: It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class ex...
Quote by Mark Twain: A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid....
Quote by George Carlin: They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the bus...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be u...
Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. ...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at ...
Quote by Henry Ford: Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column....
Quote by Mark Twain: Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the t...
Quote by Will Rogers: We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?...
Quote by Albert Camus: On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a ma...
Quote by Albert Camus: The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, mos...
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier....
Quote by Albert Camus: ... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending....
Quote by Steven Wright: Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect....
Quote by Kurt Cobain: Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with ...
Quote by Clint Eastwood: I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator o...