Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
Drew Carey

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
Rudy Giuliani

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.
Rudy Giuliani

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Karl Kraus

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Mikhail Bakunin

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.
Jurgen Habermas

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
Jurgen Habermas

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
Jesse Ventura

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
Roger Daltrey

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Jean Baudrillard

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.
James Cash Penney

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo Neruda