Best Crime Quotes

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

When the people who are in power want to use again, 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.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself?

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Adultery is not a crime, it’s an amusement.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

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

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you’re a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you’re a Republican.

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone’s dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else’s mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

What is our policy? … to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I’m going to do something I want to do.I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother.

Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that Goran Radosavljevic, the commander of the facility where the Bytyqi’s were murdered, remains a close advisor to the current government…. I call upon the Serbian government to also aspire to new heights in its own processing of war crimes from the 1990’s and to finally ensure justice in the Bytyqi case.

I’m unique for a suspense author in that I don’t have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn’t even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons – I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

We [people] all need each other. Gangs do try to fill that void – but they can’t do what healthy, balanced, and coherent families and communities can do. Let’s strengthen our core relationships from the start – and all the way through a young person’s life. This is the best way to avoid the growth of deadly and crime-involved gangs.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it’s always a good move to listen to that inner voice… if it doesn’t lead to a crime

I haven’t committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning’s oatmeal.

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you’re going to be punished no matter what for the ‘sin’ of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That’s a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That’s more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can’t even collect our wounded.