Crime Quotes

"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference"

Bess Myerson, Model

"The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours"

Belle Boyd, Celebrity

"Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime"

Roger Daltrey, Musician

"And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage"

Tony Randall, Actor

"I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill"

Patty Duke, Actress

"Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write"

Wally Amos, Businessman

"It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws"

John Conyers, Politician

"There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered"

Louis Stokes, Politician

"So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war"

George A. Smith, Clergyman

"If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows"

Paul Eldridge, Educator

"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime"

Tracey Gold, Actress

"Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated"

Louis Stokes, Politician

"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime"

Gary Bauer, Public Servant

"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too"

David Cameron, Politician

"I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities"

Sonia Sotomayor, Judge

"Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you"

Dick Francis, Author

"After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor"

John Huston, Director

"It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"

Hugh Mackay

"For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time"

Catherine Crier, Journalist

"Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now"

Drew Carey, Actor

"One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door"

Duncan Hunter, Politician

"Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right"

Cher, Musician

"Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

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