Crime Quotes

"In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes"

Bob Ney, Politician

"Petty laws breed great crimes"

Ouida, Novelist

"A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena"

Tom C. Clark, Politician

"Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it"

Hun Sen, Statesman

"I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes"

Ernst Zundel, Activist

"My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain"

Diane Abbott, Politician

"Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death"

Peter DeFazio, Politician

"Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue"

Diane Abbott, Politician

"We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty"

George Jackson, Activist

"This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime"

Gary Johnson

"As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note"

Georges Bizet, Composer

"Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization"

John Amery, Politician

"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"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"

Elijah Cummings, Politician

"Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now"

David Lloyd, Artist

"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed"

Anthony Powell, Novelist

"To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God"

Prem Rawat, Leader

"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race"

Pierre Bayle, Philosopher

"I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen"

Quintus Ennius, Poet

"To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked"

Thomas Babington, Poet

"False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing"

Joseph de Maistre, Diplomat

"The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

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