Crime Quotes: Captivating Thoughts on Criminal Minds (Page 2)

"Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front"

Wilhelm Keitel, Celebrity

"A friend to honesty and a foe to crime"

Allan Pinkerton, Businessman

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life"

Warren E. Burger, Judge

"But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city"

George Moscone, Politician

"I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"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

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

Voltaire, Writer

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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

Cicero, Philosopher

"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

"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"One crime has to be concealed by another"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it"

Ronald Reagan, President

"No crime is so great as daring to excel"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail"

Lord Byron, Poet

"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

"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

"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

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

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong"

Bob Hope, Comedian

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"

George Carlin, Comedian

"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

"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

"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime"

John Ruskin, Writer

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

Mason Cooley, Writer

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

John Morley, Statesman

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

George Will, Journalist

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

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"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

"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