710 Crime Quotes for You to Enjoy

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. Hunter S. Thompson

World Stupidity Crime Closed Thieves Society Everybody Final Guilty Only Sin Caught Getting Where

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Ayn Rand

Poverty is the mother of crime. Marcus Aurelius

Mother Crime Poverty

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality. Ben Shapiro

Freedom Reality People Disagree Crime Thought Freedom Of Speech Matters Destroy Majority Becomes Decide Which Dislikes Engaging Moment Speech

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You Old Crime Increasingly Penalized Like Committed Being Growing Growing Old

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway

War Matter Crime Think Never How Nor Justified Necessary

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet. Jane Goodall

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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? George Carlin

Freedom Fight Crime Fire Mention Never Part Well Us Fighters

I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country. Robert Kennedy

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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate. Ted Nugent

You Crime Gun Gun Control Control Crime Rate Worst Citizens Rate Highest Armed Most America Where Lowest Violent

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. Lysander Spooner

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

Crime Softly Never Hit Hitting Avoided Soft

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. Dennis Prager

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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. Mignon McLaughlin

Heart Crime Partner Rules Never Head Becomes Just

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. Clint Eastwood

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. H. L. Mencken

Crime Argument Poverty Kind Caused Common Poor Slander

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

Crime High Cure Electric Chair

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Noah Webster

War Bible Injustice Oppression Crime Men Ambition Precepts Neglecting Evils Miseries Contained Vice Proceed Which Suffer Slavery

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. Hannah Arendt

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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. Ronald Reagan

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