Crime Quotes

"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time"

Hugh Leonard, Dramatist

"In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

"In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book"

Ismail Haniyeh, Politician

"Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I"

Paul Guilfoyle, Actor

"Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion"

Margaret Cho, Comedian

"It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down"

Jack Johnson, Athlete

"The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis"

Gregory Corso, Poet

"In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone"

Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman

"It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself"

John F. Kerry, Politician

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"

Marion Barry, Politician

"We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime"

G. Gordon Liddy, Entertainer

"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them"

Thomas Francis Meagher, Soldier

"We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes"

J. Irwin Miller, Businessman

"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused"

Freda Adler, Educator

"Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime"

Carrie P. Meek, Politician

"I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime"

Mike Rutherford, Musician

"I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff"

Tom Araya, Musician

"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium"

Rand Beers, Soldier

"As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion"

Ken Calvert, Politician

"The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"It's not a crime to get drunk"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means"

Ian Williams, Musician

"I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them"

Dick Van Patten, Actor

"There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

"My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive"

Stand Watie, Soldier

"It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God"

George H. White, Politician

"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair"

J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant

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