Top 1200 Crime Victims Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show 'Crime Stories?' No, it's crucial.

A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic violence. But 84 percent of those who are victims of domestic violence remain silent.

As a lawyer, I've dealt with really serious offences, and the public rarely hear what the true impact is on the victims' families. When you hear it from the mouths of victims, your entire approach changes, because it could happen to anybody, and they articulate that in such a powerful way.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

For far too long, victims' rights have been discussed only in the context of sentencing. Sentencing is very important, but the debate obscures something much more fundamental: most victims have so little faith in our criminal justice system that they do not access it at all.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

When someone hurts you or harms you, even if it is a deep wound, forgive them. Forgive them NOT for their sake, but as a sign of gratitude to Allah. Why you ask? For making you the victim and not the oppressor. There is no crime in being a victim, rather it brings you closer to Allah and rids you of sins. But as for the oppressor, they'll have to face their Lord one day. So in reality, they are their own greatest victims.

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.

I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

In many cases, in order to protect organizations, administrators often move abusers around, discount victim statements, stonewall victims in administrative processes, and/or offer legal settlements with non-disclosure agreements to victims with the express intent of protecting the institution and ridding themselves of the victim.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.