Top 100 Commit Crime Quotes
#1. Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
Henning Mankell
#2. Next time we commit crime, we'll make sure to include him.
Rachel Caine
#3. Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.
Michael Howard
#4. If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on us, to educate them in proper ways.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
Matt Taibbi
#6. Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide ... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
Warren Farrell
#7. If your God asks you to commit crime against humanity, change your God.
Vinita Kinra
#8. People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?
Linda Tripp
#9. It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.
Curtis Sliwa
#10. The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.
Gerry Spence
#11. To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
Gustave Flaubert
#12. A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#13. You of all people would know people who commit suicide... can't go to the paradise of the stars. Even if you did commit a horrible crime... you have to live! You can't just give up and die! You have to live and atone for your wrongs!
Noriko Ogiwara
#15. We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
Bob Dylan
#16. Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.
Cristiane Serruya
#17. I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
Matt Groening
#18. Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.
Matt Taibbi
#19. To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#20. Love Sex and Crime
Nearly 100 Crimes are committed in the name of Love and only one is committed in the name of Sex.
Honeya
#21. In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?
Jesse Ventura
#22. I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
Samuel Johnson
#23. In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.
Alexis Coe
#24. If a man would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, large or small, let him be successful. They will forgive any crime except that.
Charles Dickens
#25. It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.
Kevin Mitnick
#26. Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
Ted Nugent
#27. You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#28. Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
Juvenal
#29. An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
Edgar Degas
#30. There are times when you have to commit a crime to prevent an even bigger one. At least, that's what I tell myself when I can't sleep at night.
Judy Penz Sheluk
#32. There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
Pierre Corneille
#34. Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
Seneca The Younger
#35. can a criminal, using the knowledge of forensic science to his own advantage, reduce his percentage of detection in order to commit the perfect murder? If a criminal knew exactly what investigators were looking for at a crime scene, could they use that to avoid detection?
David Elio Malocco
#36. Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.
Alexei Navalny
#37. The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
R. K. Milholland
#38. If the speed of an aero equals zero, the aero is motionless; if human liberty is equal to zero, man does not commit any crime. That is clear. The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#39. Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.
Jamie Bell
#40. I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.
Tony Goldwyn
#41. Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
Charles Bass
#42. [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.
Ayn Rand
#43. ...because loving you is a crime. Which I love to commit each time, every day, whenever I see you, because that's how I love you.
Nikita Dudani
#44. In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.
Veerappa Moily
#45. Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.
Oscar Wilde
#46. I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
Og Mandino
#47. I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.
John Michael Hayes
#48. A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized
Girish Karnad
#50. India is the world's most youthful nation. A nation with such youth power cannot dream small. We cannot commit this crime. We should dream big, we should enable the youth to dream big and we should give them an opportunity to realize their dreams
Narendra Modi
#51. When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#52. Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
Cyprian
#53. I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
Vivienne Westwood
#54. Karma works in reverse. You suffer so that you have to commit the crime.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#55. Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#56. The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is.
Thomas Keneally
#57. Asking someone to help you commit a crime and then leaving him alive to point you out to the enforcers is foolish.
Lindsay Buroker
#58. There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
Vikram Chatwal
#60. I've bought the same used car from the same man since I was 16 - a Buick every time. They always work, I don't care what color it is. I don't want people to recognize my car in case I want to commit a crime.
John Waters
#61. It's like a crime is an act that when you've committed one the act is over and you haven't changed inside. But when you commit a sin it's like you create a condition that you have to live in.
Russell Banks
#62. I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment.
Demetri Martin
#63. It's a funny phenomenon. You can never visit your own funeral, but if you want to see how people feel about you, commit a crime.
Elizabeth L. Silver
#64. High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency.
Rodney Stark
#65. If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.
Alissa Nutting
#66. Even a fish can be used to commit a crime. I handled a murder case once. Some bitch cut off her husband's family jewels. You know what she used? A frozen tilapia she got out of the freezer! The spines along the back were like razors -
Liu Cixin
#67. Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.
Charles Caleb Colton
#68. Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.
Sachin Tendulkar
#69. To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#70. I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.
Dervla Murphy
#71. Smart on Crime says if you commit violent crimes, you should go to jail, and go to jail for extended periods of time. For people who are engaged in non-violent crimes - any crimes, for that matter - we are looking for sentences that are proportionate to the conduct that you engaged in.
Eric Holder
#72. He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.
Aminu Kano
#73. One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,
'the way one commits a crime.
Elizabeth Bishop
#74. I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur
#75. Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.
James Cook
#76. These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.
Gad Saad
#77. The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.
Mikhail Bakunin
#78. When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.
Josef Skvorecky
#79. God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.
Mary Doria Russell
#80. But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#81. We all have the potential to commit the crime. We chose not to. Every single day, we chose not to. I am no different
David Levithan
#82. Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes.
Brian Spellman
#83. I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.
Karin Fossum
#84. You can feel righteous fury in every frame of The Magdalene Sisters. The movie is both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're being punished for a crime you didn't commit. Which puts you, come to think of it, in the same frame of mind as those poor Magdalene girls.
David Edelstein
#85. For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
Noam Chomsky
#86. If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
Boris Johnson
#87. If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
Peggy Noonan
#88. And that is a crime I would gladly commit every day for the rest of my days," he said "Punish me how you will. I love her.
Jillian Peery
#89. The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.
Pope John Paul II
#90. In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'
Robin Williams
#91. Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
Karl Kraus
#92. If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
Hannah More
#93. When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.
I. F. Stone
#94. The only crime is getting caught. Don't ever commit it.
Manjul Bajaj
#95. There are crimes I don't commit mainly because I don't want to find out I could.
James Richardson
#96. Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.)
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#98. Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
Albert Camus
#99. Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Margaret Cho
#100. When you commit a crime always remember that, the police are always very happy to be your friend".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
