Quotes About Crime

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

It is never a crime to steal the heart of someone you love.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

The length of sentences depends upon the criminal's wealth and type of legal help more than upon the seriousness of his transgression. Court procedures are slow and cumbersome. It is the poor and stupid criminal who gets the heaviest sentences - so the aim of criminals is to become rich and cunning, and thus avoid the harshest penalties.

Steenrod was a careful, methodical man who chose his suits and sports coats according to a mathematical formula and had a mania for thinking up highly logical, if impractical, solutions to social problems like crime.

Research shows the more intimate the crime, the more people focus on the victim's behavior, and of course, there's no crime more intimate than sexual violence," Archambault says.

A police officer who does not believe there is such a crime as rape can arrive at only one determination

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,And when you reach the scene of the crime—Macavity's not there!

The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained with money. To work is senseless, because money cannot be obtained through work, but through exploitation of others. And if we cannot exploit as much as we wish, at least let us work as little as we can. Moral duty? We believe neither in the morality of man nor in the morality of systems. [p. 168]

We said that there is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save himself. And, having saved himself, he will commit crimes for increasingly trivial reasons; he will commit them first out of duty, then from habit, and finally -for pleasure.

Stupidity is not a crime. You're free to go.

If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.