Quotes About Crime

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."

The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.