Crime Quotes

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

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.

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

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

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.

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

Feeling - what authentic human fun!

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

Good. Illegal is always faster.

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome

People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.

Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.

So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.

Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

The more welfare, the more crime.

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.