Top 34 Crime Does Not Pay Quotes
#1. We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
Robert Duvall
#3. One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan
#5. To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.
A.H. Septimius
#6. There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.
Danny Sugerman
#7. I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
James Q. Wilson
#8. I'm making crime pay through writing.
Lou Holly
#9. We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#10. 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
#11. Donata seriously considered taking up a life of crime just so she could pay to have this coffee every morning,
Deborah Blake
#12. Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper
Tony Alleyne
#13. Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price
Michael Bassey Johnson
#14. The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
Laurence J. Peter
#15. I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.
Stanley R. Jaffe
#16. The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#17. We pay people and reward them for greed and sleaze . When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure pay cheque and a tacky lingerie line ... selling filth so you can get your face on Time magazine ... From Jukebox
Saira Viola
#18. My grandma leaned out the backseat window, pointing at the cops. "Just so you know, I had no part in this! Ask anyone. They'll all tell you: I hate crime."
"Well, we won't mention to them how you 'forgot' to pay for those slippers at Wal-Mart, now, will we?" my mom hissed.
Emily Cassel
#19. My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear ("Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!") signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there'd be real hell to pay.
Ed Lynskey
#20. One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.
G. Gordon Liddy
#21. Whoever said crime doesn't pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it.
Jay Crownover
#22. Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.
Amy Dickinson
#23. The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.
Ronald Reagan
#24. And then it happened. It was a detail, no more than that. A detail to which you pay no attention at first. That takes on meaning only later. In retrospect.
Herman Koch
#26. The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#27. To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.
J. Norman Collie
#28. Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.
Imran Khan
#29. We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.
Michael Prelee
#30. She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking candy bar. [ ... ] She reached down [ ... ] and chose a Galaxy bar [ ... ] "I'm going home." "You didn't pay for that," Francois shouted after her. "Fuck you, Frank," she shouted back and kept going.
J.D. Robb
#31. Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.
Jim Hightower
#33. In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
William Greider
#34. Theseus: What is the crime for which you must pay by death?
Phaedra: My life.
Seneca.
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