1.
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
Cesare Beccaria
Crimes can be more effectively deterred through the assurance of sanctions rather than their harshness.
2.
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
Cesare Beccaria
It is preferable to forestall offenses than to enforce retribution.
3.
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
Cesare Beccaria
For a penalty to be equitable it should include only those levels of severity that are sufficient to discourage individuals from perpetrating offenses.
4.
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
Emile Durkheim
'We do not label it as a wrongdoing because of its unlawfulness, but rather its unlawfulness is due to our condemnation.'
5.
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is an offense and a transgression to deem someone as inadmissible merely due to their ancestry.
6.
Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.
Cesare Beccaria
Regulations prohibiting the ownership of firearms only impede those who have no intention to break the law.
7.
Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.
Meyer Lansky
9.
Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.
Marvin Gaye
10.
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover
11.
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
14.
Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.
Meyer Lansky
15.
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore Roosevelt
16.
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
Thucydides
17.
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
Sara Paretsky
18.
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
Carter G. Woodson
19.
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
Edward Blake
20.
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.
Cardinal Richelieu
21.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers
Jacques Barzun
22.
Behind every fortune, there's a crime.
Method Man
23.
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.
Mordechai Vanunu
24.
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
Aristotle
26.
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
Roger Ebert
27.
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.
George Harrison
29.
Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair
Sammy Gravano
30.
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
Thomas Paine
31.
Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
James Ellroy
32.
Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?
Raphael Lemkin
33.
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
Preet Bharara
34.
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
Bobby Sands
35.
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
Patricia Cornwell
36.
A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
37.
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.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
38.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Bess Myerson
39.
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized
Girish Karnad
40.
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.
Konosuke Matsushita
41.
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.
Michael Bay
42.
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?
Richard Fleischer
43.
Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.
Mario Puzo
44.
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.
Carl Hiaasen
45.
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.
Lysander Spooner
46.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri
47.
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
Barry Farber
49.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
Cardinal Richelieu
50.
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
Benjamin Harrison