“Crime is naught but misdirected energy.”
Emma Goldman
“One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
Oscar Wilde
“Intellectual property rights violations are a crime and we don't believe we should be negotiating crimes with our trading partners.”
Carlos Gutierrez
“I think it's like the old energy conservation law that made it a crime to go more than 55 mph, but it wasn't really a crime. It was our way of complying with the federal government without complying.”
Vern Woodward
“My friends, I'm proud to announce that I have a very tough anti-crime proposal for our party, ... And here is the centerpiece of our anti-crime plank: three interns and you're out.”
Dan Quayle
“If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own”
Latin Proverb
“I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'”
Richard Jeni