Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Crime. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Crime Quotes and Sayings from 94 influential authors, including Ani Difranco,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Malcolm Gladwell,Andrew Dominik,Barbara Ehrenreich, for you to enjoy and share.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say 'This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can.' By Ani Difranco Biggest Crime Throw Hands Live

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Crime Stem Unsuspected Punishment Grow

People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics. By Malcolm Gladwell Cdc Centers Control Disease People

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant. By Andrew Dominik Crime Boring Job Unpleasant

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. By Barbara Ehrenreich Crime Tunnel Change Character Crosses

Behind every fortune there is a crime. By Honore De Balzac Crime Fortune

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. By Bill James System Expose Business Popularizing Crime

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime. By Azhar Crime Times Trouble Leniency

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime. By Bill Bennett Crime Complicated Literature Big Single

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Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder By Rohinton Mistry Money Order Buy Police Justice

Crime requires further crime to conceal it. By Seneca The Younger Crime Requires Conceal

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime. By George Pelecanos Joblessness Poverty Subpar Schools Opportunity

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil. By Marquis De Sade Lust Crime Soul Evil Pleasure

One cannot judge of crime with ready-made opinions: its philosophy is a little more complicated than people think. It is acknowledged that neither convict prisons, nor the hulks, nor any system of hard labour ever reformed a criminal. These forms of chastisement only punish him and reassure society against the offences he might commit. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Opinions Judge Crime Readymade Philosophy

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. By Maximilien Robespierre Throne Crime Innocence Butchers Secure

It is not a question of crime and punishment it is problem and solution. By Rohinton Mistry Solution Question Crime Punishment Problem

There is no greater crime than desire. By Laozi Desire Greater Crime

Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime By Ben Mezrich Fortune Crime Great Lies

Time is with you... but as for the crime in that time... I am ain't fucking sure. By Deyth Banger Time Crime Fucking

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn By Arthur Conan Doyle Mysterious Drawn Common Place Crime

How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press. By Thabo Mbeki Gauteng Cape Western Month Murders

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong! By Albert Camus Wrong Crimes Committed Reason Perpetrator

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. By David Frost England Class Broad Definition Crime

The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else. By Sophie Hannah Crimes Books Committed People Pain

Are you gonna arrest a robber?""Know any?""My friend Everet stoled a candy bar from the store, but his ma found out and made him go pay for it out of his 'lowance, and he couldn't have candy or nothing for a whole month. You could arrest him. He's over there."He pointed, cheerfully ratting out his pal."It sounds like he's paid his debt to society. By J.d. Robb Everet Lowance Candy Robber Store

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time. By Victor Cruz Lot City Time Crime Violence

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. By G. Gordon Liddy Pays Crime

Crime is a product of a distorted mind. By Kiran Bedi Crime Mind Product Distorted

Before and after the crime, not just during, in order By Mindy Mcginnis Crime Order

The intention makes the crime. By Aristotle. Crime Intention Makes

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings. By John Mcafee South Petty Begins Theft Economy

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime? By Linda Tripp Crime Expectation Privacy Commission

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented ... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort - as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails. By Robert Green Ingersoll Crimes Committed Punish Prevent Long

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime By Allan Pinkerton Crime Friend Honesty Foe

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. By Terry Pratchett Money Commit Crimes Peccadilloes Perpetrated

Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught. By Catherynne M Valente Criminal Naturally Forces Humans Categories

Criminals strike close to home just as the average person chooses stores where he shops daily. By Robert Graysmith Criminals Daily Strike Close Home

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. By Jean De La Bruyere Poverty Crime Father Mother Lack

Atrophy of feeling creates criminals. By Anais Nin Atrophy Criminals Feeling Creates

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals. By Edward Blake Crimes Criminals Accumulation Personal Wealth

It might be worthwhile to take a familiar question - why there is so much crime in modern society? - and stand it on its head: why isn't there a bit more crime?After all, every one of us regularly passes up opportunities to main, steal, and defraud. The chance of going to jail - thereby losing your job, your house, and your freedom, all of which are essentially economic penalties - is certainly a strong incentive. But when it comes to crime people also respond to moral incentives (they don't want to do something they consider wrong) and social incentives (they don't want to be seen by others as doing something wrong). By Steven D. Levitt Crime Question Society Worthwhile Familiar

Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth. By Agatha Christie Loyalty Crime Pestilential Thing Truth

walking calendar of crime, By Arthur Conan Doyle Walking Crime Calendar

In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes. By P.d. Ouspensky Criminal Man Profession Society Sect

Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with the people who get into bad situations. By Johnnie Dent Jr. Situations Bad People Crime Classifications

Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime By Theodor W. Adorno Crime Work Art Lies Uncommitted

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion. By Thomas Hobbes Reasoning Crime Passions Understanding Defect

workers with children).1 Crime travels hand By Scott Martelle Crime Workers Children Hand Travels

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder. By Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph Crime Blunder Worse

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation. By Duane Hewitt Crime War Creation Aberration

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. By Daniel J. Boorstin Uncorrupted Authentic Spontaneous Event World

There are offences given and offences not given but taken. By Izaak Walton Offences

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds. By Ruth Rendell Fascinated Crime People Characters Obsessions

Very well, sir, to crime. By Ross Thomas Sir Crime

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. By Arthur Conan Doyle Common Crime Logic Rare Dwell

In the end, crime doesn't pay. By Lane Garrison End Crime Pay

When there is crime in society, there is no justice. By Plato Society Justice Crime

Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime. By Norbert Wiener Crime Expiation Removal Reform Criminals

Petty laws breed great crimes. By Ouida Petty Crimes Laws Breed Great

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal. By Jaggi Vasudev Criminal Moment Function World Concerned

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. By Noam Chomsky Powerful Crimes Commit

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Hopes Reason Idleness Deferring Crime

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things. By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Punishment Crime Governments Ages Remains

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time! By Jake Knotts Crime Time Prepared

In Freakonomics, we examined the causes of the rise and fall of violent crime in the United States. In 1960, crime began a sudden climb. By 1980, the homicide rate had doubled, reaching a historic peak. For several years crime stayed perilously high, but in the early 1990s it began to fall and kept falling. So what happened?In Freakonomics, we identified one missing factor - the legalization of abortion in the early 1970s. The theory was jarring but simple. A rise in abortion meant that fewer unwanted children were being born, which meant fewer children growing up in the sort of difficult circumstances that increase the likelihood of criminality. By Steven D. Levitt States United Freakonomics Crime Examined

There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter. By Joanna Lumley Crime School Missing Time Fountain

the crime as we knew it. I told them I'd send By James Patterson Crime Knew Send Told

Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access. By Banksy People Crime Remember Admire Property

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason. By Gustave Flaubert Print Reason People Commit Crime

The hood made me realise that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn't do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programmes and part-time jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Crime doesn't discriminate. By Trevor Noah Crime Cares Hood Made Realise

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all. By Brad Pitt Crime Capitalism Unvarnished

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong. By Laurell K. Hamilton Life Wrong Crime Busting Easier

Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime ... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand ... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in somereal degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community. By Rutherford B. Hayes Opportunity Education Decrease Increase Property

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay. By Ronald Reagan Pay Criminal Element Calculates Crime

Such crimes has superstition caused. By Lucretius Caused Crimes Superstition

Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty. By Isabelle Eberhardt Crime Downtrodden Liberty Poor Gesture

Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away. By James Lee Burke Stupid Criminals District Irish Whiskey

In the course of crime ... the descent is rapid. By Frederick Marryat Crime Rapid Descent

A family formed by crime must be broken by more crime. By Seneca. Crime Family Formed Broken

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart By Jane Austen Heart Crimes Worst

I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do. By Takeru Kobayashi People Things Realized Crime Judge

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals. By Nicolas Sarkozy Story Criminals Time Ideas People

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it. By Emile Durkheim Forms Society Developed Criminality Found

Where there's property, there's theft. By Ursula K. Le Guin Property Theft

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. By Hannah Arendt Wrongdoer Citizens Live Wrong Spectator

Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime. By Elliott Colla Culture Crime Thinking Imagining Goddamn

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. By George Borrow Love God Crime Country Preventive

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime. By Marquis De Sade Happiness Crime Excites Lies Thing

When crime was working as it was supposed to it was very dull. Very lucrative and very dull. By E.l. Doctorow Dull Crime Working Supposed Lucrative

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. By Ovid Years Nature Crime Taught Early

There are only three motives for all crimes. Tibbs: money, power, and love. Sometimes those things get muddled together, of course, and you could argue that hunger is a bloody good motivator as well, but one might lump that in with love of self or love of others or love of food, and---well, never mind all that. Pass the pickled radishes. - Inspector Percival Pensive, The Case of the Gilded Guardian By Jessica Lawson Love Crimes Motives Tibbs Money

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. By Bernard Tschumi Excesses Society Crime Sorts Secretly

Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The By Friedrich Nietzsche Punishment Thing Strange Criminal Atonement

robbing banks and killing people in the By Tom Gallagher Robbing Banks Killing People

Interstate highways are the veins and arteries by which crime circulates in America. Serial killers seem to float through them like blood cells, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Crimes committed along interstate highways ought to be considered extraterritorially, apart from the normal rules of geography, and separate from a state's good name. These huge highways form a kind of fifty-first state of their own, a state whose flower is the deadly nightshade and whose state bird is the vulture. By William R. Maples America State Highways Interstate Veins

Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it. By Josh Lieb Crime People Poor Rob Bank

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked. By Matthew Vaughn Crime Money Power Drugs Linked

stealing chocolates By Nicholas Reardon Stealing Chocolates

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. By Emile M. Cioran Crime Inspires Full Glory Consolidates