#Crime Quotes

“Tremble, thou wretch,That hast within thee undivulged crimesUnwhipped of justice.”

“Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.”

“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!”

“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

“No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.”

“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.”

“To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.”

“Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they sow with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain.”

“There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.”

“If little faults proceeding on distemperShall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eyeWhen capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,Appear before us?”

“We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.”

“A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.”

“They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.”

“It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.”

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

“You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.”

“Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.”

“The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.”

“History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs”

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

“The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.”

“There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.”

“History is the study of the world's crime”

“Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.”

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.”

“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.”