Top Crime Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Crime quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Don Winslow
Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers, so I am happy to be considered a crime writer. That's what I consider myself.
- Don Winslow
Collection: Crime
Image of Jean Racine
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
- Jean Racine
Collection: Crime
Image of Francis Parker Yockey
For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.
- Francis Parker Yockey
Collection: Crime
Image of Lucan
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
- Lucan
Collection: Crime
Image of Marie Howe
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
- Marie Howe
Collection: Crime
Image of Cato the Younger
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
- Cato the Younger
Collection: Crime
Image of Cesare Beccaria
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
- Cesare Beccaria
Collection: Crime
Image of Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
- Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe
Collection: Crime
Image of Jake Knotts
If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!
- Jake Knotts
Collection: Crime
Image of Asa Butterfield
Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.
- Asa Butterfield
Collection: Crime
Image of Jeremy Piven
If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.
- Jeremy Piven
Collection: Crime
Image of Emile Durkheim
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
- Emile Durkheim
Collection: Crime
Image of John E. Douglas
There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.
- John E. Douglas
Collection: Crime
Image of Preet Bharara
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
- Preet Bharara
Collection: Crime
Image of Geraldine Jewsbury
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
- Geraldine Jewsbury
Collection: Crime
Image of Lucie Brock-Broido
I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.
- Lucie Brock-Broido
Collection: Crime
Image of Karl Kraus
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
- Karl Kraus
Collection: Crime
Image of Honore de Balzac
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Crime
Image of Method Man
Behind every fortune, there's a crime.
- Method Man
Collection: Crime
Image of Glenn Loury
You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10 years to 20 years, when 5 years would be enough. Okay. The deterrent value, the additional amount of leverage that you get over a criminal to keep them from breaking the law in the first place, associated with making the sentences longer, is de minimous; it's essentially nothing.
- Glenn Loury
Collection: Crime
Image of Jesse Ventura
In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?
- Jesse Ventura
Collection: Crime
Image of Tupac Shakur
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
- Tupac Shakur
Collection: Crime
Image of Ozzy Osbourne
There are no uncriminal crimes.
- Ozzy Osbourne
Collection: Crime
Image of Mark Steyn
In Britain, everything is policed except crime.
- Mark Steyn
Collection: Crime
Image of Brad Pitt
Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.
- Brad Pitt
Collection: Crime
Image of J. C. Watts
There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.
- J. C. Watts
Collection: Crime
Image of Seneca the Younger
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Crime
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
Collective crimes incriminate no one.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Crime
Image of John Wooden
Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.
- John Wooden
Collection: Crime
Image of Alice Walker
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
- Alice Walker
Collection: Crime
Image of William Shakespeare
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Crime
Image of Seneca the Younger
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Crime
Image of Seneca the Younger
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Crime
Image of Sachin Tendulkar
Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.
- Sachin Tendulkar
Collection: Crime
Image of Simon Wiesenthal
What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Collection: Crime
Image of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Collection: Crime
Image of William J. Clinton
Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.
- William J. Clinton
Collection: Crime
Image of Virgil
From a single crime know the nation.
- Virgil
Collection: Crime
Image of Woody Allen
Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?
- Woody Allen
Collection: Crime
Image of Charles Dickens
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.
- Charles Dickens
Collection: Crime
Image of Eoin Colfer
Good. Illegal is always faster.
- Eoin Colfer
Collection: Crime
Image of Tom DeLonge
Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?
- Tom DeLonge
Collection: Crime
Image of Publilius Syrus
He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.
- Publilius Syrus
Collection: Crime
Image of Richard Dawkins
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
- Richard Dawkins
Collection: Crime
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Crime
Image of Arthur Conan Doyle
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Collection: Crime
Image of Arthur Conan Doyle
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Collection: Crime
Image of Dave Grohl
Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.
- Dave Grohl
Collection: Crime
Image of Oliver Goldsmith
Crime generally punishes itself.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Collection: Crime