Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.

I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

Importance of technology is increasing every day, we must not deprive our children of technology, if we do then it's a social crime.

I'm responding to the will of the people.

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

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

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

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.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

In New Zealand, sex workers are regarded as workers, as people who are members of the community, people who have a stake in the community - not just in the workplace, but in the broader community. They aren't objects to be controlled and regulated. They are not collateral evidence of a crime. They are human beings.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

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

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.