Crime Quotes

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.

George Bernard Shaw

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Thomas Jefferson

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

George Farquhar

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Barry J. Farber

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

Giovanni Falcone

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Jimmy Buffett

Don't steal. The government hates competition.

Anon.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Victor Hugo

It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

Terry Pratchett

Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, the Bible and The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Kurt Vonnegut

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Samuel Johnson

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

Jodi Picoult

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Jean Racine

He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.

Francois Rabelais

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Hannah Arendt

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Plato

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

Edward W. Howe

If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere