Top Crimes Quotes

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

I think we would all agree that people should not be jailed for thoughts. But when, if ever, does a thought cross the line and become a crime?

We are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.

The crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed against the body, but against the freedom of the consciousness.

...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjur...

When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy th...