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Quotes About Crime

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
~ Janet Reno
I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.
~ Nicholas Hoult
Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.
~ Craig Reucassel
Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.
~ Pope Francis
These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.
~ Jean Ziegler
And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity
~ Kim Wilde
Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.
~ Kedar Joshi
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
~ Kailash Satyarthi
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.
~ Steven Wright
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
~ H. L. Mencken
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
~ Mark Twain
In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'
~ Robin Williams
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
~ Oscar Wilde
Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?
~ Kathy Reichs, Virals
And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
~ Robert E. Sherwood
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
~ Allen Tucker
Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful.
~ Bill Watterson
They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!
~ George Carlin
Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.
~ Chris Rock
I could think of no better place to secretly murder someone than inside a fridge. Well, actually there were probably several better ones, but none came to mind at the time.
~ Yahtzee Croshaw, Jam
The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.
~ Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
~ Vladimir Nabokov