Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Theodor Adorno

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
Robert Duvall

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda Adler

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Maximilien Robespierre

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel J. Boorstin

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
Frank Abagnale

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Friedrich Engels

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Emile M. Cioran

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emile M. Cioran

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Whitney Houston

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
Charlize Theron