Crime Quotes

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

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.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

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

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

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

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

It should never be a crime to be gay.