Top 25 Crime Quotes of 688 - Page 14

Crime generally punishes itself.

Oliver Goldsmith

Crime

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Oliver Goldsmith

Prison, Crime

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.192

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Eden, Prison, Crime

Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)”, p.956, e-artnow

Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

Michael K. Williams

Issues, Addiction, Crime

Source: www.ebony.com

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

Michael Connelly

Book, Unique, Crime Novels

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

Michael Bloomberg

Cities, America, Crime

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

White, Derivatives, Crime

Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

Marquis de Sade

Ideas, Inspire, Crime

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

Mark Millar

Writing, Fairytale, Crime

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Mark Frost

Elements, Crime, Consistent

Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.152, Open Road Media

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Mahatma Gandhi

Kindness, Disease, Crime

Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

Machado de Assis

People, Action, Crime

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.40, University of Texas Press

There is no greater crime than desire.

Laozi

Taoism, Desire, Crime

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

Kate Moss

Motherhood, Crime, Born

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

Karl Shapiro

Children, Hate, Crime

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

Juvenal

Deeds, Guilty, Crime

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Juvenal

Men, Infamous, Crime

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Juvenal

Men, Crime, He Man

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

Juvenal

Deeds, Guilty, Crime

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 209, 1922.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Juvenal

Fruit, Crime, Remorse

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

Justice, Important, Crime

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

John Sandford

Ugly, Crime, Theft

"In 'Mad River,' A Friendly Cop Tackles Rural Crime". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, krvs.org. September 23, 2012.