Crime Quotes

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

Oscar Wilde

There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.

David Letterman

If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?

Orson Scott Card

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Aristotle

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Georges Bataille

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Terry Pratchett

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

Bertrand Russell

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Jodi Picoult

It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.

Orson Scott Card

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

Terry Pratchett

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Ambrose Bierce

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

Samuel Johnson

It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.

Jill Peterson

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

William Shakespeare

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Ben Jonson

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Emma Goldman