Crime Quotes

"Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

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

Karl Kraus, Writer

"If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

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

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes"

George W. Bush, President

"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"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment"

Earl Warren, Judge

"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"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

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

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"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"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no"

George Savile, Politician

"Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode"

Spalding Gray, Actor

"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it"

Craig Bruce

"Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"The worst crime is faking it"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"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"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics"

Bill Scott, Actor

"Successful crimes alone are justified"

John Dryden, Poet

"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin"

Ron Chernow, Author

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

Friedrich Engels, Philosopher

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