Crime Quotes

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

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

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.

It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere.

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.