crime quotes

• One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right. (John Ruskin) [crime/time/willpower/right]
• Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. (John Ruskin) [punishment/crime]
• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. ( Seneca) [crime/virtue]
• He has committed the crime who profits by it. ( Seneca) [crime]
• One crime has to be concealed by another. ( Seneca) [crime]
• Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. (George Bernard Shaw) [youth/thing/crime/waste]
• The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. (Max Stirner) [state/right/crime]
• A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law. (Mark Twain) [crime/crime/virtue/right]
• Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. (Evelyn Waugh) [crime/desire]
• Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just. (Simone Weil) [human/being/crime/needs]
• The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. (Jay Leno) [crime/problem/day]
• Your Honor, I committed the crime of being on the cover of Us magazine with Ben Affleck 100 times too often. My lips were too shiny. I made horrible movies. For my penalty I accept five months in Alderson jail in West Virginia. (Jennifer Lopez) [crime/being]
• I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing. (Aaron Eckhart) [crime/thing]
• When the old Italian mob was coming up, during the Kennedy years, they still had ethics, like, no women and children, which calls for less violence. That's what the word organized is, in front of crime. (Omar Epps) [women/crime]
• “It's a simple narrative on the surface, ... The setting, certainly. And there are certain things that remind one of genre imagery that you've seen before, whether it's action movies or crime movies or Westerns. There are a lot of elements that look familiar. But it's kind of like the family itself. Everything that looks normal, in the end, isn't really. And like a lot of David's movies, at the end you say, 'Well, is anyone really normal?' ” (Viggo Mortensen) [action/crime/look/family]
• “Even though it wasn't to my crime, it was because of my crime — and that made me feel really validated. It made me feel that I wasn't crazy. Somehow it might be easier to accept that you're crazy and you made it all up than to admit that it happened. But I knew he would not have gone to prison if I hadn't come forward.” (Teri Hatcher) [crime/crime/crazy/crazy]
• Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit. (Christopher Meloni) [crime/life/worry/crazy]
• “the biggest crime of all.” (Elizabeth Perkins) [crime]
• Those who carry out those acts should know that what they’re doing is committing a war crime. They will be held accountable for it, and it will not just be the field commanders, … Any political leaders we find who have ordered that type of behavior will also be held to account. (Robin Cook) [acts/war/crime/willpower]
• Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. (Ambrose Bierce) [goodwill/crime/excuse]
• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House. (Ralph Abernathy) [take/crime]
• The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. (Samuel Gompers) [crime/people/company/profit]
• First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here? (Jack Kevorkian) [think/crime/help/suffering]
• The crime of loving is forgetting. (Maurice Chevalier) [crime]
• In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. (Alan Autry) [perception/crime/business/destroy]
• Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime. (Alan Autry) [more/crime]
• What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. (Frank Abagnale) [youth/crime]
• If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours. (Billy Boyd) [crime/love/president/prison]

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