Crime Quotes

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”

“History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.”

“I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.”

“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”

“The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.”

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

“We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.”

“The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?”

“I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.”

“The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'.”

“Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.”

“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.”

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.”

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

“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.”

“You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.”

“A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.”

“There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.”

“This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.”

“Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.”

“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”