Top 1200 Crime Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.
The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.
A top priority of my administration has been to strengthen laws for crime victims and their families.
Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.
I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.
When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.
I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre.
I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.
I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.
My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.
One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate.
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.
To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.
Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.
I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time
The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.
I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.
Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.
What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
