Quotes About Crime

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.

When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.