Quotes about Crime

42 quotes about Crime

We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is...

Quote by Gabriela Mistral about crime

The only serious crime I have ever committed in free...

The only serious crime I have ever committed in free society was bank robbery during the time I was a fugitive.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about crime

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about crime

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about crime

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about crime

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...

Quote by Albert Camus about crime

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about crime

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.

Quote by Agatha Christie about crime

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Quote by Agatha Christie about crime

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York...

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Quote by Agatha Christie about crime

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Quote by Agatha Christie about crime

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is...

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about crime

American culture is torn between our long romance with...

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about crime

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about crime

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than...

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about crime

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure...

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

Quote by Henry Ford about crime

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how...

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about crime

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's...

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about crime

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, ...

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about crime

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having...

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Quote by Whitney Houston about crime

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