Crime Quotes

"At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers"

Jim Costa, Politician

"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

"First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law"

John Shadegg, Politician

"Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!"

David Zucker, Director

"The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty"

Ramman Kenoun

"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

"No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined"

Paul Gallico, Writer

"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

"Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption"

Darrell Issa, Politician

"Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet"

Darrell Issa, Politician

"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

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

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

"The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes"

Jim Costa, Politician

"All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime"

Alan Autry, Actor

"The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles"

Ric Keller, Politician

"In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires"

Alan Autry, Actor

"The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime"

Angela Davis, Activist

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