C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.”
“Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.”
“Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”
Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President
“Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.”
“Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.”
“Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.”
“Crime is naught but misdirected energy.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.”
“Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.”
“Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.”
“Crime is rampant. We even steal away from responsibility.”
“Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.”
“Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.”
“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”
Source: Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table
“Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.”
“Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.”
“Crime isn't a scourge, people are. Crime is just how folks talk to each other sometimes.”
Source: Crook Manifesto
“Crime isn't that complicated. People steal because taking something gives them something. If they're not in it for the money, they're in it for control. The act of taking, of breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They're in it for the sheer defiance. Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive.”
Source: A Darker Shade of Magic
“Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.”
“Crime of passion, lifetime of regret!”
“Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.”
“Crime pays...when you work for the corrupt corporate government.”
“Crime requires further crime to conceal it.”
“Crime scene techs determined that Breitner had escaped underground, through a sewer drain below the warehouse. Smart move, asshole; you planned this escape and let the others take the fall. I will hunt you down, tough guy. I will find you…”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.”
“Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.”
“Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.”
“Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.”
“Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.”
“Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.”
Source: Straight
“Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.”
“Crime, too, means solitude, even if a thousand people join together to commit it.”
Source: Caligula and Three Other Plays
“Crime was my career. I considered myself a craftsman | a true professional. Everybody has a craft they practice. Clean or dirty, safe or dangerous, we all have a viable skill and a part to play in the enigma that comprises our world. A professional is a person who earns moneys for practicing their craft. Having labored many years and becoming experienced in a particular skill, you learn the gradations and eventually reach the title of master.”
Source: Career Criminal: My Life in the Russian Mob Until the Day I Died
“Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.”
“Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.”
“Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.”
“Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.”
“Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.”
Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice
“Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.”
“Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.”
“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”
“Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.”
Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography
“Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.”
Source: Witness
“Crimea has always been and remains Russian, as well as Ukrainian, Crimean-Tatar, Greek (after all, there are Greeks living there) and German - and it will be home to all of those peoples. As for state affiliation, the people living in Crimea made their choice; it should be treated with respect, and Russia cannot do otherwise. I hope that our neighbouring and distant partners will ultimately treat this the same way, since in this case, the highest criteria used to establish the truth can only be the opinion of the people themselves.”