Crime Quotes

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

Society, Stupidity, Guilty

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill

Great, Daring, Excel

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Tupac Shakur

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Sure, Run

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

Men, Power, Government

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Matter, Nor

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Blessed, Mean

The worst crime is faking it.
Kurt Cobain

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin

Freedom, Fight, Fire

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur

Times, Half, Five

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Business, Poetry

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson

Happy, Whole, Progress

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Children, Wonderful, Youth

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Whitney Houston

Alone, Friends, Problems

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

Death, Law, Trying

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky

Fear, Control, Mothers

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford

Wrong, Poverty, Charity

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore Roosevelt

Hit, Soft, Hitting

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

Religion, Men, Strong

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Ron Paul

Country, Fine, Laws

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

Faith, Good, Hate

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Clint Eastwood

Society, Children, Reason

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers

Become, Pay, Lawyer

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers

Business, Why, Able

Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius

Mother, Poverty

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
Jerry Garcia

Money, Bad, Problem

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Lies, Behind

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Ralph Nader

Health, Country, Problem

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire

Fear, Punishment, Follows

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
Abdul Kalam

Death, Read, Sickness

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