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Quotes About Crime

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
~ Pat Brown
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
~ Pat Brown
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Kau biarkan suamiku merampas istri orang; itu berarti kau ikut membangunkan kejahatan, kerusuhan, dan malapetaka.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Dalam pencurian dan pembunuhan tidak pernah ada ampun.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
~ Prem Rawat
We are not talking about fear. We are not talking about fright. We are talking about terror and torture with a capital T. Prosecutor Jarrett J. Ferentino (arguing for the imposition of dearly upon serial killer Hugo Selenski)
~ Prosecutor Jarrett Ferentino
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
~ Proverb
Thief who steals thief has one hundred years of pardon.
~ Proverb
To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.
~ Proverb
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
~ Publilius Syrus
The more we study the question, the more we are brought to the conclusion that society itself is responsible for the anti-social deeds perpetrated in its midst; and that no punishments, no prisons, and no hangmen can diminish the numbers of such deeds; nothing short of a re-organisation of society itself.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Do you not see that by your methods of teaching, framed by a ministry for 8 million scholars, who represent 8 million different capacities, you only impose a system good for mediocrities, conceived by an average of mediocrities? Your school becomes a university of laziness, as your prison is a university of crime.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
People speak of laziness or crime, without giving themselves the trouble to analyse the cause. They are in a hurry to punish these faults without inquiring if the punishment itself does not contain a premium on 'laziness' or 'crime'. This is why a free society, if it saw the number of idlers increasing in its midst, would no doubt think of looking first for the cause of laziness, in order to suppress it, before having recourse to punishment.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
we know that every alleviation, however slight, of the wretchedness of our great cities is followed by a very considerable diminution of crime;
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
The Ox-Bow Incident, Body and Soul, White Heat, The Third Man, The Brothers Rico, Riot in Cell Block 11
~ Quentin Tarantino
The U.S. Attorneys who comprise the Attorney General's Advisory Committee play a critical role in carrying out the Department of Justice's important work, including its efforts to reduce violent crime, combat the opioid crisis, protect the most vulnerable, and enforce the rule of law.
~ William Barr
I want to be clear: We can address safety and livability issues head-on without criminalizing homelessness. After all, people living on our streets are themselves vulnerable to crime and other hazards.
~ Ted Wheeler
Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Hate crime and hate speech must not be tolerated. Our policy and lawmakers and those who uphold the law must protect the most vulnerable in our society.
~ Sinead Burke
It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
~ Jeffery Deaver
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
~ Nicolas Sarkozy
I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.
~ Clint Eastwood
Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
~ Mark Thomas