Quotes About Crime

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

According to The New York Times, the mob has now gotten into Medicare fraud. But the good news is, when they do break your legs there's a good chance you're covered.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely." "Good morning," I replied. "Morning. Listen to this. The second victim.

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.