More quotations tagged with “crime”
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
—Howard Scott
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
—Robert Rice
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
—Eric Sevareid
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.
—Michelle Alexander
We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
—Margaret Mead