Quotes About Crime

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

One of my favorite movies of all time is Fargo.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

Si Ter a vécu il a dû être de ce côté de la société où l'argent est facile, où l'idée est courte, où le mystique du chef tient lieu d'idéologie et justifie le crime.

El crimen del loco consiste en que se prefiere a los demás. Esta preferencia impía me repugna en los que matan y me espanta en los que aman. La criatura amada ya no es, para esos avaros, sino una moneda de oro en que crispar los dedos. Ya no es un dios: apenas es una cosa. Me niego a hacer de ti un objeto, ni siquiera el Objeto amado. (p. 50)

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone.

They made it personal when they shot Pop. It is not business, it's personal.

For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.

no longer fearing the cost. "For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.