Crime Cause Quotes

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

When drinkers became violent, communities accepted the idea that liquor was responsible for their actions; it made no sensate punish the person who committed the crime when the true offender was the alcohol.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

If you want to stop crime in America you must stop it at the top ... You cannot stop it at the bottom because the bottom is a reflection of the top.

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.

Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

There's only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

The main cause of crime is linked very directly to mass immigration.