Crime Quotes

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
Henry Thomas Buckle

He who profits by a crime commits it

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment

Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city
George Moscone

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father

Crime is a product of social excess

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

The greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy.
Ramsey Clark

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
Robert Emmet Sherwood

When your family members die, they just see you as extra overtime at a crime scene and at a perimeter.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business
Robert Rice

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.
George Bataille

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.







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