Crime Quotes
There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.
We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.
We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
It is a tragedy of the Germanic world that Jesus was Judaised, distorted, falsified; and an alien Asiatic spirit was forced upon us. That is a crime we must repair.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.
