Crime Quotes

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

Despotism is a long crime.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.

The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

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

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

I have a message for all of you. The crime and violence that today afflicts America will soon - and I mean very soon - come to an end.

I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York. It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the gun away from criminals that shouldn't be having it.

There is no greater crime than desire.

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.

I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.