Quotes about Crime

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio told the Jews, “If this matter involved a wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to hear your complaint.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

A Texas bank robber wrote his hold-up note on the back of his resume, on which he lied about his earlier robberies.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

There is no shame in being the object of a crime. You did not choose to be the object.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.

In 2008, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama told an audience, "Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools, and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.