Quotes about Crime
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
- Thomas Paine
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
- Ayn Rand
Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.
- Exodus 21:16
If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:16
If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:18
If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.
- Numbers 35:30
If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
- Deuteronomy 19:16
in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
- Judges 9:24
For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.
- Job 31:11
A partner to a thief hates his own soul; he receives the oath, but does not testify.
- Proverbs 29:24
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
- Ecclesiastes 8:11