Quotes About Crime

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

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.

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.

I rob banks because that's where the money is.