Quotes about Crime
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
- George Bernard Shaw
I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
- Kamala Harris
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
- Kamala Harris
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
- George Bernard Shaw
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- Aristotle
Films like 'Scarface', 'The Godfather', 'Goodfellas' and 'Casino' are something I can watch again and again and from anywhere. I love them so I have to make one.
- Zoya Akhtar
Without any appeal to books, to laws, or to authorities of any kind, it was enough to accept God as a father, to regard slavery as a crime. I
- Frederick Douglass
The cruel injustice, the victorious crime, and the helplessness of innocence, led me to ask in my ignorance and weakness: Where is now the God of justice and mercy? and why have these wicked men the power thus to trample upon our rights, and to insult our feelings? and yet in the next moment came the consoling thought, the day of the oppressor will come at last.
- Frederick Douglass
The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.
- Anne Lamott
Thanks to a skewed court system, the offender gets more sympathy than the victim of his crime. Police officers are put on trial for doing their duty against a criminal with a rap sheet that reaches to the floor. Who's the one who broke the law—the criminal or the policeman? Police officers are investigated while criminals write books that make them rich, famous, and features them on television talk shows.
- John Hagee