Crime Quotes

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at All.

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

I'm responding to the will of the people.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment.

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers, so I am happy to be considered a crime writer. That's what I consider myself.

They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. We need to build a wall.

We will accomplish all of the steps .And, when we do, peace and law and justice and prosperity will prevail. Crime will go down. Border crossings will plummet. Gangs will disappear.

Let's stop the drugs and the crime from pouring into our country.