Quotes about Crime

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes

But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size.

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

For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.

Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water, like Pilate.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

While the ghettos may have their share of violence and crime, the posh suburbs are home to more subtle demonic forces--numbness, complacency and comfort. These are the powers that can eat away at our souls.