Memorable Crime Quotes

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"Crime does not pay, but in the end, it’s still a thrill."
Alfred Hitchcock
"The law is not a law without punishment."
Sophocles
"The greatest crime is not to have tried at all."
George Clooney
"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law."
Louis D. Brandeis
"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."
Henry Stimson
"Every crime is a result of a moral failure."
Gordon Martin
"Once you get rid of integrity, the rest is easy."
Warren Buffett
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"The punishment of crime should be only that it defeats its own ends."
Henry David Thoreau
"The roots of crime run deep in the darkness of despair."
David Felman
"Crime, like the disease, needs a cure."
Julius Rosenwald
"To be in a state of distrust is to be in a state of personal crime."
Jared Leto
"Intolerance of injustice is the mother of justice."
Harold Pinter
"The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught."
Anonymous
"There is no crime that is not a reward to somebody."
Larry McMurtry
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in crime prevention."
Robert Peel
"Revenge is a confession of pain."
Julius Evola
"Society prepares the crime; the guilty are only the instruments."
Victor Hugo
"Criminals are the only people in this world who are truly unpredictable."
Charles Starkweather
"It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see that matters."
Henry David Thoreau
"Crime is the price society pays for being affluent."
Allan Dershowitz
"If crime was rewarded, there wouldn’t be a criminal left in America."
Franklin Pierce
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"Every act of crime is an act that disarms the innocent."
Lesley McAskill
"To err is human; to forgive, divine. To commit crime is lunacy."
Nicolas de Chamfort
"While we do not look in the same way at thieves, often the real criminals are not behind bars."
John Steinbeck
"The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want."
Aristotle
"Every crime is a reflection of society's failures."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"It is the law that makes a man a murderer; it is not his own hand. The law is a moral force, a guiding principle."
Albert Camus
"The most terrible thing is to disallow hope to another human being."
Joni Mitchell
"The best way to avoid crime is to get involved in prevention."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"All crime is a mistake. There is no crime that is not a mistake."
Franz Kafka
"Crime does not pay ... as well as politics."
Alfred E. Newman
"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of all its pretensions."
Leviathan
"Crimes of the heart are always abominable and attract deep scrutiny."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"The law is not an end in itself; it serves the people and must be at the service of justice."
André Gide
"Impunity is the mother of injustice."
Blaise Pascal
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"We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals."
Mary Parker Follett
"The crime we recognize as great is often the crime we commit ourselves, but disguised."
William S. Burroughs
"What we need is a law that will allow you to commit any crime, provided it is tomorrow."
John Steinbeck
"Crime is not a mere violation of the law; it fundamentally impairs the human spirit."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."
Francois Vidocq
"If there is no justice for the people, then there can be no peace for the government."
Malcolm X
"There is no such thing as an innocent bystander."
C. Delwin Smith
"Crime is a product of our society, arising from the imbalance between the needs of the individual and the rights of the community."
Janet Reno
"In a civilized society, law must be above solidarity."
Bertolt Brecht
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"No one is free when others are oppressed."
Unknown
"There is no crime that cannot be traced back to the love of money."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"The higher the social class, the more the crime takes the form of neglect."
E. M. Forster
"A crime is a crime, and it should be punished."
Khalid Muhammad
"Truth is the first victim of war, and lies are the tools with which governments justify crime."
Henry Miller
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Thomas Paine
"Violence is not a solution, it’s a crime."
Cesar Chavez
"The law cannot protect the weak if it is weak itself."
Friedrich Schiller
"A person who commits a crime is not a true criminal but someone who makes a choice in a moment of darkness."
Kevin Spacey
"Revenge is a crime that has no statute of limitations."
Tommy Lee Jones
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
William Faulkner
"Crime does not pay. As a matter of fact, it repays very poorly."
Dave Barry
"If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noting those of others."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"People are not born criminals; they are made."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
Plato
"To guarantee a man’s freedom, we must first protect his right to commit a crime."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"A crime is a crime, whether committed by one person or thousands."
Yoko Ono
"To understand the world, you must first understand yourself, including your own criminal tendencies."
Marshall McLuhan
"Crimes of necessity are often the result of a society that fails to provide for its people."
Howard Zinn
"When people abandon their sense of right and wrong, they become willing accomplices in crime."
Melanie Joy
"No one can guarantee success in war, in love, or in crime."
Charles de Gaulle
"The crime of not being able to create is one of the most profound extant in our society."
David Mamet
"Each crime is like a fingerprint; it leaves its own mark."
Ernest Van Den Haag
"A person is innocent until proven broke."
M. E. Thomas
"The greatest crime is to do nothing because you can only do a little."
Edwin Elliot
"Crime is the last refuge of the imaginative."
Oscar Wilde
"It is not crime, but punishment, that is the problem."
Elvira Nabiullina
"Punishment consists in pulling back a floating life, a little back toward the absolute."
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
"Injustice everywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"When crime is made so easy, there is no reason to commit it."
William S. Burroughs
"The first duty of society is justice."
Alexander Hamilton
"There is no greater crime than that of the heart, a betrayal in the name of love."
Pierce Brown
"Lawyers and painters can soon make whiskeys, but they can't make justice."
Germaine Greer
"Crime is simply the law's expression of the moral code."
Albert Camus
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
William E. Gladstone
"Crimes sometimes belong to the law and not to the criminal."
George W. Bush
"You can't fight crime without a badge and a heart."
Bryan Stevenson
"In a society marked by crime, the victim becomes the perpetrator."
Richard Wright
"There is no crime, only crime-fighting."
Robert J. Sawyer
"The law is not always the law; that's why there's always crime."
Johnny Depp
"The morality of duty becomes less apparent amid the poison of crime."
Albert Einstein
"To live outside the law, you must be honest."
Bob Dylan
"Crime is a mirror in which we see ourselves as we truly are."
Anthony Burgess
"One man's criminal is another man's hero."
Mahatma Gandhi
"A crime is rather more than a breach of the law; it is a condition of affairs for the individual and society."
W. H. Auden
"No one is above the law, and no one is below it."
Abraham Lincoln
"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law."
Louis D. Brandeis
"The crime of the century is not the crime of violence; it is the crime of being born."
David Mamet
"The greatest crime is to compromise with injustice and falsehood."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Crime does not pay...as well as politics."
Alfred E. Neuman
"Every act of crime is an act of terror against the moral order of our society."
Ralph A. Cavaillé
"The criminal justice system is not about punishment; it’s about rehabilitation and prevention."
Elizabeth Fry
"Crime is a product of social excess."
Viktor E. Frankl
"In every society, crime is a universal aspect of human behavior."
Eric Schlosser
"Criminals should not be allowed to possess firearms."
Harry Reid
"When people are being attacked, that's when the true crime happens."
Liza Lou
"One crime can make a thousand people mad."
Khalil Gibran
"Crime knows no boundaries, class, or creed."
Benazir Bhutto
"When people don't feel safe, it’s a sign that crime is not being taken seriously."
John F. Kennedy
"The law cannot stop all crime, but it can surely punish the guilty with fairness."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not yet taken the plunge."
Harold Nicolson
"The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of a martyr."
Muhammad ibn Abdallah
"Crime is merely the differences in our lives that have gone awry."
William S. Burroughs
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its most vulnerable members."
Gandhi
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost impossible to locate."
Harold Pinter
"Criminality is often a reaction to social inequality and lack of opportunity."
Albert Bandura
"All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
Sean O'Casey
"Crime is a symptom of a deeper problem."
Cesar Chavez
"If you give people a chance, they will rise to the occasion, because no one is born a criminal."
Jennifer Granholm
"What we really need is a world of nonviolence."
Shimon Peres
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
Jonathan Swift
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