Crime Quotes
God cannot be happy when we ignore such issues as crime, corruption, alcoholism and child neglect
If we found a ticket to Disneyland would you think we should arrest Mickey Mouse?
Nothing against the music, it's awesome... but going deeper and deeper in Super Genes... it's kind of dry... isn't it???So I need something bloody!- Crime is a great choice!
...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.
...because loving you is a crime. Which I love to commit each time, every day, whenever I see you, because that's how I love you.
The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.
Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.
Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy.
The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am, ’ to me before Igave him ID.”“It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.
There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
We've got our heads pulled low inside of our hooded sweatshirts and our eyes are shifty. We look exactly like you'd expect someone to look if they were minutes away from committing a major crime.
I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.
Do you think he's the murderer?""It's worse than that -- he's an actor!
If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?
I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, ‘Throw your donut in the opposite direction and the cops won’t get you.’ I love wearing that t-shirt.
A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. (“The Story of Prince Barkiarokh”)
He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.
It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.
...And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent.
Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught.
Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn’t get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him.
Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.
In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.
And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that was neither male nor female and yet roused feelings of the most dejected and criminal love
Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.
Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.
In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.
What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.
Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe.
Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.
He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at Berebury Police Station.
He was the one for her. She somehow knew that no one could make her feel the way did. Not if she lived for another hundred years.
In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.
You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.
To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.
She was floating in the midst of a black sea, in the darkest of nights, with no hope or care to see light again. She was a mere wave away from drowning in blackness.
For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act accompanied by a criminal state of mind.
Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper
