Prevent Crime Quotes

#1. The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

H.L. Mencken

#2. Said once, that the only real duties of government were to prevent crime and preserve contracts, to which I will add one thing since I find myself reluctantly in the twentieth century: and to provide for the common defense.

Harper Lee

#3. Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Cato The Younger

#4. Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.

Jon Stewart

#5. Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#6. Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

Michael Moore

#7. Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Seneca The Younger

#8. The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Lord Melbourne

#9. The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#10. We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Paul Broun

#11. The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

African Spir

#12. The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.

Albert Einstein

#13. [T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#14. Unfortunately, there's no surefire way to prevent sexual assault.

Jennifer Marsh

#15. I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it.

Mark Boyle

#16. I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.

Viggo Mortensen

#17. He's hit it fat ... It will probably be short ... It just hit the front edge of the green ... It's got no chance ... It's rolling toward the cup ... Well I'll be damned!

Jimmy Demaret

#18. The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

John Ashcroft

#19. Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

Howard G. Hendricks

#20. When we treat evangelism as merely one of the Christian virtues, it rarely produces much fruit. When evangelism becomes our passion as we walk day by day with Christ, it produces much fruit.

Mike Shipman

#21. Looks like my hand is about to do a meet and greet with the back of your head, Colton retorted.

J. Lynn

#22. Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

Bob Barr

#23. 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

#24. We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Sol Wachtler

#25. If you ain't killin' 'em, maybe your point ain't sharp enough.

Kevin Welch

#26. He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#27. How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

Gunter Grass

#28. China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) sees U.S. battle networks - "which rely heavily on satellites and the Internet to identify targets, coordinate attacks, guide 'smart bombs' and more" - as its "Achilles' heel.

Robert D. Kaplan

#29. Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?

Gustav Meyrink

#30. 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

#31. 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. Imagination is the conception, but vision is the perceptual realization.

Debasish Mridha

#33. It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Cesare Beccaria

#34. You won't hear from me again.

Nicolas Sarkozy