Crime Quotes
A crime in a broad sense is an act that violates a political or moral law. In the narrow sense, a crime is a violation of the criminal law. There can be certain acts of crime which are not necessarily punishable by law too like crimes of the heart. It could be considered to be a behavior that breaks the criminal law and is liable to public prosecution and punishment. A crime free society provides all the elements required for growth and prosperity.
Crime quotes can be used to sometimes describe a non serious evil intent to people when you want to joke with them. Or they can also be used to describe the intent of some criminal elements of the society in newspapers and other media sources. |
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
Arthur Bugs Baer
There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
Ovid
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Ramsey Clark
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Marcellinus Ammianus
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Anonymous
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Jean Baptiste Racine
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
Lucan
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre
A crafty knave needs no broker.
Horace
'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
Ben Jonson
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
Jean Baptiste Racine
The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
Publilius Syrus
I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 months in which I rationalized.
O Anna Niemus
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?
Bob Edwards
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
Randy K. Milholland
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Ovid
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
Lord Byron
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Pierre Corneille
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
William Cowper
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
Joseph Fouche
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. - James Anthony Froude,
James Anthony Froude
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is grievous to be caught.
Horace
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
Juvenal
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Will Rogers
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
Juvenal
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
Juvenal
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Don Marquis
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer
You are not to do evil that good may come of it.
Juvenal
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Ovid
And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
Robert Emmet Sherwood
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Charles H. Parkhurst
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
G. Gordon Liddy
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Anonymous
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
Vittorio Alfieri
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
Allen Tucker
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
Duchess Of Windsor
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Vittorio Alfieri
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Henry Thomas Buckle
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
Crooks are early adopters.
Craig Newmark
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Benjamin Disraeli
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Voltaire
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
C. P. Snow
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
Crime is a product of social excess.
Lenin, Vladimir
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
Alfred E. Newman
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
Alex Levin
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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