Crime Quotes

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Crime prevention is everybody's business.

We realize that drug addiction is a sickness, but it's also a crime.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Drunk driving is the nation's most frequently committed violent crime. Underage drinking is the No. 1 youth drug problem, and MADD served more than 30,000 victims and survivors in 2004. It is time for everyone to realize that we need the support of the entire community to solve this problem and to save lives.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

The only effective way to reduce and prevent juvenile crime is to balance tough enforcement measures with targeted, effective and intervention initiatives.

We were tired of crime and living like prisoners. The normal way of living was behind iron bars and gates.

In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say "Stop, or I'll say stop again.".

He did an adult crime, and he should serve an adult time.

Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime - turn then your sword on me.

We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly, that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the 1st place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city.

I am not taking sides or 'switching sides'. This is the same advice I routinely offer to other prosecutors, crime laboratories and defense lawyers.