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Quotes About Crime

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
~ Salman Rushdie
No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.
~ John Dillinger
I enjoyed watching 'Mirzapur,' 'Sacred Games.' There are interesting shows.
~ Kunal Khemu
Behind every crime is a story of sadness.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
~ Polly Toynbee
The thing about going back to El Paso, it's overwhelming sometimes. I look at the support that I get and the success that I've had, and I can't walk anywhere without being spotted. My hair might be the biggest crime in this situation.
~ Khalid
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?
~ Timothy Noah
I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
~ Jeff Miller
It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandora's box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' and turned 'Daredevil' into a crime comic.
~ Frank Miller
The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
~ Zack Snyder
I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.
~ Prue Leith
I love Walter Mosley and Robert Parker crime novels. And I read a lot of music reviews.
~ Van Hunt
I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery. They never came home.
~ Chesa Boudin
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
~ Matt Taibbi
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
~ Bill James
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
~ Peter Mullan
The trial has at any rate proved', The Times correspondent continued, 'that to plot against the constitution of the Reich is not considered a serious crime in Bavaria.
~ Peter Padfield
The victim was white, in his early thirties, five feet eleven inches tall, ten and a half stone in weight, and in good physical condition. The last part always irritated Banks: how could a corpse ever be in good physical condition ?
~ Peter Robinson
Do you think Gill's death was calmly planned and executed, or was it a crime of passion?' Banks asked. 'A bit of both. Things aren't so clear-cut in this kind of crime. Terrorists are very emotional about their beliefs, but they're cold and deadly when it comes to action.
~ Peter Robinson
Asking government to report inflation is like asking mafia to report on crime.
~ Peter Schiff
Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other injuries. Also head and pubic hair ignited, shot, muzzle in mouth. Three bullets recovered, 45 calibre." Villani: "So you can't rule out an accident?
~ Peter Temple
Negative peace answers often included references to theft and criminality.
~ Peter Uvin