Crime Quotes at FixQuotes

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

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

Eli Khamarov, Writer

"A friend to honesty and a foe to crime"

Allan Pinkerton, Businessman

"Crime is naught but misdirected energy"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent"

Cicero, Philosopher

"To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it"

Irene Peter, Writer

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes"

George Will, Journalist

"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes"

Voltaire, Writer

"Fear follows crime and is its punishment"

Voltaire, Writer

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"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

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

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens"

Emmanuel Teney, Author

"If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade"

Howard Coble, Politician

"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies"

Woody Allen, Director

"No crime is so great as daring to excel"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime"

Neil Tennant, Musician

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

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence"

Joe Baca, Politician

"But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"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

"Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression"

Robert Nozick, Philosopher

"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"

Robert Green Ingersoll, Lawyer

"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them"

Ray Bradbury, 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

"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

"The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations"

John Bruton, Politician

"The concept of war crimes is an American invention"

George Wald, Scientist

"In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity"

Adam Schiff, Politician

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