Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

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

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

But the good news, the crime rate is down. Isn't that amazing? Less banks are being robbed. Well, sure. A, there's less banks. B, the banks don't have any money left. And C, nobody's got gas money for the getaway car. So, right there, crime is down!

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

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

Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness.

Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want to get beyond just speaking to other Middle East scholars, so I'm happy about that. But this was, nonetheless, a novel I wish I got to read in Arabic and translate.

Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

[Clinton's crimes] is well documented, and the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive coverup of widespread criminal activity at the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in order to keep the Clintons in power.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Crooks are early adopters.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.