Quotes About Crime

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

Pushers don't pay taxes.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

Obviously, he needed to kill Bubba, but how? The man was a trained prison guard twice his size. The tax auditors had been easy. Mr. Ethics had slapped them to death with their own attaché cases. And even then, his neighbours had chipped in to help him hide the bodies. "A tax auditor, you say? No problem. Let me get my spade.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

This was not even a particularly big offense in the pantheon of book club crimes, where the worst sin one could commit was not to read the book in question--or, even worse, to lie about having read the book when, in fact, you'd simply seen the movie, a lie usually uncovered when you used the actor's name by accident. ("I love the part where Daniel Day-Lewis ...")