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

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

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
Abdul Kalam

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Ovid

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt

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

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley

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

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Angela Davis

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

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
Tony Blair

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
Tom Robbins

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Green Ingersoll

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
Ralph Abernathy