Quotes About Crime

I always felt, you don't have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege.

Avoir commis tous les crimes, hormis celui d'être père

In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself.

L'heure du crime ne sonne pas en même temps pour tous les peuples. Ainsi s'explique la permanence de l'histoire.

To be a Raskolnikov — without the excuse of murder.

They credited only their own prejudices, whence the accusation of "misanthropy," a crime imputed to them by Cicero, Seneca, Celsius, and, with them, all antiquity.

A nation which no longer rapes is in its decadence; the number of rapes reveals its instincts, and its future. Find out in which war it has stopped practicing, on a large scale, this variety of crime: you will have found the first symbol of its decline; find out at what moment love has become for a nation a ceremonial, and the bed a condition of orgasm, and you will identify the beginning of its deficiencies and the end of its barbaric inheritance.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

we should not say that an act offends the common consciousness because it is criminal, but that it is criminal because it offends the common consciousness

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

The hour of crime does not sound at the same time for all peoples. Hence, the permanence of history.

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

I remember the Sherlock Holmes stories where he and Watson would go to the countryside. Watson would see the beautiful cottages and Holmes would see a harbinger of crime. He went on to say that in London there are at least many police officers that would be nearby compared to the countryside where there are miles and miles from local law enforcement. If there is a police force it is very small which allows people to get away with a lot.

Sadly, life is worth nothing. Or next to nothing.... The gods have died, and we distrust our dreams. We emerge from the void, stare back at it for a short while, and then rejoin the void. A young woman lies dead on her doorstep. A pointless crime, but the world pauses. We listen, and the universe has nothing to say. There's only silence, so we have to speak.

Sadly, crime is the only spur that rouses us. We're fascinated by that "other world" where everything is possible.

Everywhere you look -- Britain, the States, western Europe -- people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake -- a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.

The arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

To come so low as to beg servants to reveal secrets to you, and to fall lower still by paying for a revelation, is not a crime; it is perhaps not even a dastardly act, but it is certainly a piece of folly; for nothing will ever guarantee to you the honesty of a servant who betrays her mistress, and you can never feel certain whether she is operating in your interest or in that of your wife.

Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.

I remained aware enough of social sins to be surprised when religious people wanted to focus on sexual sins instead. I suppose that when poverty, crime, and degradation of the environment start looking unbeatable, then it is predictable that people will shift their attention to an enemy who seems easier to attack.