Crime Quotes

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

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

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.