Crime Quotes - Page 3

• Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

  David Duke

  Russia, Leader, Mafia

  16 Copy quote

• Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

  Mark Frost

  Elements, Consistent, Human Experience

  Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.152, Open Road Media

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

  Stand Watie

  World, Intention, Blunders

  7 Copy quote

• Actions receive their tincture from the times,
  And as they change are virtues made or crimes

  Daniel Defoe

  Action, Virtue, Made

  'A Hymn to the Pillory' (1703) l. 29

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

  Edward Blake

  Borders, Carnivals

  71 Copy quote

• A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

  Greg Smith

  Majority, Downtown, Common

  7 Copy quote

• I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

  Howard Coble

  Play, Drug, Roles

  84 Copy quote

• Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

  Jerry Weller

  Fetus, Harm

  17 Copy quote

• Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

  Juvenal

  Men, He Man, Committed

  7 Copy quote

• The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.

  Stephen Harper

  Issues, Facts, Increase

  7 Copy quote

• A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Feelings, Resentment, Host

  W F. Lyons, Thomas Francis Meagher (1871). “Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher: his political and military career; with selections from his speeches and writings”, p.13

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.

  H. L. Mencken

  Evil, Democracy, Doctrine

  10 Copy quote

• In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

  William Greider

  Prison Time, Doe, Banking

  7 Copy quote

• It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

  Ed McBain

  Character, Squad, People

  18 Copy quote

• A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

  Aristotle

  Government, Political, Noble

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1280b.30 - 1281a.3,

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  War, Struggle, Thrones

  30 Copy quote

• 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

  Elude Us, Scary, Secret

  Georges Bataille (1991). “The Trial of Gilles de Rais”, Amok Books

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Men, Heaven, Care

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 148-149), 1922.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

  Pierre Corneille

  Shame

  8 Copy quote

• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

  Agatha Christie

  Attitude, Soul, Mind

  Agatha Christie (1956). “Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table”

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glasses, Criminals, Earth

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Punishment, Plot, Prison

  "Antigone". Play by Vittorio Alfieri, Act 2, Scene 2, 1801.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

  Emma Goldman

  Energy, Criminals, Crime And Criminals

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Business, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.98, David M Gross

  8 Copy quote

  Show source