Crime Quotes

Poverty is the mother of crime.

“There’s the King’s Messenger. He’s in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn’t begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all” – “Suppose he never commits the crime?” said Alice. “That would be all the better, wouldn’t it?” the Queen said.

Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered I’ve seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

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

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society.