Crime Quotes

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate"

"Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia"

David Duke, Celebrity

"Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime"

Johnny Ball, Entertainer

"To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime"

Howard Crosby, Clergyman

"Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"

Marion Barry, Politician

"Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit"

Freda Adler, Educator

"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit"

Wallace Shawn, Actor

"Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitely banned"

Francois Bozize, Statesman

"Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars"

Carrie P. Meek, Politician

"Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration"

Alan Mollohan, Politician

"There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention"

Charles Guggenheim, Director

"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm"

Sol Wachtler, Judge

"It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice"

Max Nordau, Critic

"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime"

Edward Livingston, Judge

"Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it"

Thomas Francis Meagher, Soldier

"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate"

Vincent Frank

"About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston"

Howie Carr, Author

"The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals"

Edward Blake, Politician

"My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong"

Frank Miller, Artist

"We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses"

Terence Fisher, Director

"If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place"

Carrie P. Meek, Politician

"If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime"

Carrie P. Meek, Politician

"The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium"

Robert Trout, Journalist

"In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated"

Tim Bishop, Politician

"We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers"

Theresa May, Politician

"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border"

Edward Blake, Politician

"The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever"

John Gunther, Journalist

"There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said"

Robbie Williams, Musician

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