Top 25 Crime Quotes of 688

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Cesare Beccaria

Punishment, Crime, Certainty

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life Changing, Intelligence, Crime And Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.235, Vintage

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Cesare Beccaria

Crime, Pragmatism

Cesare Beccaria (2016). “On Crimes and Punishments”, p.107, Transaction Publishers

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Cesare Beccaria

Men, Crime, Intensity

Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Emile Durkheim

Crime

Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Division of Labor in Society”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

Mahatma Gandhi

Community, Sin, Crime

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Cesare Beccaria

Law, Weapons, Crime

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

Meyer Lansky

Lying, Firsts, Crime

Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.

Lavrentiy Beria

Men, Crime, He Man

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

Marvin Gaye

Reality, Panic, Crime

Song: Inner City Blues, Album: What's Going On, 1971

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

J. Edgar Hoover

Debate, Crime, Chairs

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Hate, Politics, Crime

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Cost, Gulags, Crime

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Theodor Adorno

Art, Crime, Uncommitted

Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.41, Univ of California Press

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

Meyer Lansky

Way, Crime, Taxes

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Theodore Roosevelt

Hitting, Unforgivable, Crime

1913 Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

Thucydides

Crime, Should, Commit

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

Sara Paretsky

White, America, Crime

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

Carter G. Woodson

Strong, Crime, Weak

"The Mis-Education of the Negro". Book by Carter G. Woodson, 1933.

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

Edward Blake

Borders, Crime, Carnivals

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

Cardinal Richelieu

Law, Crime, Individual

"Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America". Book by David Hackett Fischer, 2008.

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

Method Man

Crime, Fortune, Behinds

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Jacques Barzun

Fiction, May, Crime

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

Mordechai Vanunu

Done, Speak, Crime

Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.