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Quotes About Crime

It's called 'The 10th Muse.' I'm the 10th daughter of Zeus - the forgotten Muse. By day, I'm a district attorney; by night, I fight crime with my martial-arts skills.
~ Sable
Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well.
~ Nicholas Kristof
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
~ Dorothy Miller Richardson
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
~ Cecil Beaton
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
~ Robert Rice
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
~ Howard Scott
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
~ Bess Myerson
The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.
~ Thomas Fuller
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.
~ Voltaire
It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.
~ Remy de Gourmont
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
~ Henry Ford
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
~ Juvenal
One crime is everything; two nothing.
~ Dorothee Deluzy
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
~ French proverb
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
~ Sir George Savile
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
~ James Russell Lowell
They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!
~ Rudyard Kipling
What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.
~ Paul LePage
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
~ Warren Ellis
As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.
~ Greg Gutfeld
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.
~ Bill James
My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
~ Taylor Swift