What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
Michael Bloomberg

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

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

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

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Jacques Barzun

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Jean de la Bruyere

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

I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?
Lindsay Lohan

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Johan Huizinga

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

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
J. Philippe Rushton

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
Yancy Butler

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Joseph De Maistre

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
Alexander Alekhine