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Quotes about Crime

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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
- Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

CP The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
- Alex Levin

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
- Hunter S. Thompson, US journalist (1939 - 2005)

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
- Howard Scott, (1926 - )

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- W. H. Auden, US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973)

The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
- Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)

CP Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
- G. Gordon Liddy

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow, English novelist & scientist (1905 - 1980)

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
- Lucan, Roman epic poet (39 AD - 65 AD)

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
- Randy K. Milholland, Webcomic pioneer

Crooks are early adopters.
- Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist.org (1952 - )

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
- Maximilien Robespierre, French politician & revolutionary (1758 - 1794)