Crime Quotes - Page 2

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.

If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society's capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere.

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.