# Quotes about crime - Quotes: 12 - Authors: 9 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime ## Quotes > Once you asked me about crime nowadays - I said any such interest pathological - maybe prompted by the endless sickening television programmes of your time - never able to watch more than few minutes myself... disgusting! [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [3001 The Final Odyssey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey/once-you-asked.md) Topics: [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > Yes - crime. Always some... Society's irreducible noise level. What to do? Your solution - prisons. State-sponsored perversion factories - costing ten times average family income to hold one inmate! Utterly crazy... Obviously something very wrong with people who shouted loudest for more prisons - They should be psychoanalysed! But let's be fair - really no alternative before electronic monitoring and control perfected - you should see the joyful crowds smashing the prison walls then - nothing like it since Berlin fifty years earlier! p. 39 [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [3001 The Final Odyssey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey/yes-crime-always.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [Reflections on the Guillotine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/reflections-on-the-guillotine.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/reflections-on-the-guillotine/capital-punishment-is-the.md) Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > One might think that a period which, in a space of fifty years, uproots, enslaves, or kills seventy million human beings should be condemned out of hand. But its culpability must still be understood... In more ingenuous times, when the tyrant razed cities for his own greater glory, when the slave chained to the conqueror's chariot was dragged through the rejoicing streets, when enemies were thrown to the wild beasts in front of the assembled people, the mind did not reel before such unabashed crimes, and the judgment remained unclouded. But slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or by a taste for the superhuman, in one sense cripple judgment. On the day when crime dons the apparel of innocence — through a curious transposition peculiar to our times — it is innocence that is called upon to justify itself. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Rebel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/one-might-think.md) Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > Always remember, your uncle was a thief. He stole what was rightfully yours. [James A. Michener](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener.md) · [The Covenant](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-covenant.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-covenant/always-remember-your.md) Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > Everybody yelled at him, and laughed at him, and sassed him, and he sassed back, and said he'd attend to them and lay them out in their regular turns, but he couldn't wait now, because he'd come to town to kill old Colonel Sherburn, and his motto was, "Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on." [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/everybody-yelled-at-him.md) Topics: [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > A feud is this way. A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man’s brother kills him; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in—and by-and-by everybody’s killed off, and there ain’t no more feud. But it’s kind of slow, and takes a long time [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/a-feud-is-this.md) Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > Miami turned out to be a great market: It seemed as if everybody here wanted things that went bang. You had your professional drug-cartel muscle people, who needed guns that shot thousands of rounds per minute to compensate for the fact that their aim was terrible. You had your basic local criminals, who wanted guns that would scare the hell out of civilians; and your civilians, trying to keep up with your local criminals. You had your hunters, who, to judge from the rifles they bought, were after deer that traveled inside armored personnel carriers. You had your "collectors" and your "enthusiasts," who lived in three-thousand-dollar trailers furnished with seven-thousand-dollar grenade launchers. You had an endless stream of shady characters representing a bewildering variety of revolutionary, counterrevolutionary, counter-counterrevolutionary and counter-counter-counterrevolutionary movements all over the Caribbean and Central and South America, who almost always wanted guns on credit. (Chapter 5) [Dave Barry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry.md) · [Big Trouble](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry/big-trouble.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry/big-trouble/miami-turned-out.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > Last year, organized crime was directly responsible for more than one hundred murders, and mafiosi participated indirectly in several hundred more, either by lending the killers carfare or by holding their coats. Other illicit activities engaged in by Cosa Nostra members included gambling, narcotics, prostitution, hijacking, loansharking, and the transportation of a large whitefish across the state line for immoral purposes. [Woody Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen.md) · [Getting Even](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/getting-even.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/getting-even/last-year-organized.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > Cusins: Call you poverty a crime? > > Undershaft: The worst of crimes. All the other crimes are virtues beside it: all the other dishonors are chivalry itself by comparison. Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it. What you call crime is nothing: a murder here and a theft there, a blow now and a curse then: what do they matter? they are only the accidents and illnesses of life: there are not fifty genuine professional criminals in London. But there are millions of poor people, abject people, dirty people, ill fed, ill clothed people. They poison us morally and physically: they kill the happiness of society: they force us to do away with our own liberties and to organize unnatural cruelties for fear they should rise against us and drag us down into their abyss. Only fools fear crime: we all fear poverty. [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [Major Barbara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/major-barbara.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/major-barbara/cusins-call-you.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world—the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine.It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented the hair from turning grey, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine, looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack. It was the sign of the regeneration of the human race. It superseded the Cross. Models of it were worn on breasts from which the Cross was discarded, and it was bowed down to and believed in where the Cross was denied. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/above-all-one.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md) > And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones.When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. They were shaken and miserable. They did not know which was more shocking--the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed. In the old days there had often been scenes of bloodshed equally terrible, but it seemed to all of them that it was far worse now that it was happening among themselves. Since Jones had left the farm, until today, no animal had killed another animal. [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Animal Farm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/and-so-the.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md)