Quotes About Crime

A crime is a breach of an important social rule. Solitary animals don't have rules. A bear will trash another bear's cave, steal its food and kill its young. Wolves don't do those things: if they did, they couldn't live in packs.

Grey quoted Gladstone, asking "whether, under the circumstances of the case, this country, endowed as it is with influence and power, would quietly stand by and witness the perpetration of the direst crime that ever stained the pages of history, and thus become participators in the sin?

Fascism offered false solutions, simplistically blaming groups such as Jews and Communists for complex problems such as unemployment and crime.

El delito es la ruptura de una regla social importante. Los animales solitarios no tienen reglas. Un oso invadirá la cueva de otro oso, robará su alimento y matará a sus oseznos. Los lobos no hacen esas cosas; si las hicieran, no vivirían en manadas. Los lobos son monógamos, unos cuidan los cachorros de los otros y respetan el espacio particular ajeno. Si un individuo quebranta las reglas, lo castigan; si reincide, lo expulsan de la manada o lo condenan a muerte.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

Gregory hid out following the murder of Lazia. On the night of July 30, 1934

Interstate highways are the veins and arteries by which crime circulates in America. Serial killers seem to float through them like blood cells, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Crimes committed along interstate highways ought to be considered extraterritorially, apart from the normal rules of geography, and separate from a state's good name. These huge highways form a kind of fifty-first state of their own, a state whose flower is the deadly nightshade and whose state bird is the vulture.

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

I will make it felony to drink small beer.

Murder most foul, as in the best it is.

And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?

Flat burglary as ever was committed.

schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that's impossible unless we fix crime. There's no fulcrum on which to rest a policy lever. People of all ages sense that something huge will have to sweep across America before the gloom can be lifted—but that's an awareness we suppress. As a nation, we're in deep denial.

To fix crime we have to fix the family, but before we do that we have to fix welfare, and that means fixing our budget, and that means fixing our civic spirit, but we can't do that without fixing moral standards, and that means fixing schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that's impossible unless we fix crime.

Why do you rob banks, Willie?) Because that's where the money is.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot.

Some will rob you with a six-gunAnd some with a fountain pen.

When the people who are in power want to ... create an image to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.