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Quotes About Crime

The journey through this one case will ultimately bring viewers from wondering, in cop-show expectation, whether the bad guys will get caught, to wondering instead who the bad guys are and whether catching them means anything at all,
~ Jonathan Abrams
Our obligation to love, honor and obey any being is in proportion to his loveliness, honor and authority. Therefore, sin against God, being a violation of infinite obligations must be a crime infinitely heinous and so deserving infinite punishment. If there is any evil in sin against God it is infinite evil.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Kellerman
~ Ruth Rendell
What are you saying? Multiple bad guys?" "I was actually wondering about one bad
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman
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Donald Trump of the crime scene," I said.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman
~ Chivas Blue
than the first, so you could have a fairly recent crime. But that could also
~ Jonathan Kellerman
It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
What are they trying to do?" Davison asked. "I never heard of anything like this." I took my eyes off Ginger's legs. "Gangsters," I said. "But they've gone out of style," Davison said. "They don't have gangsters any more." "Suppose you go out and tell them that," I said.
~ Jonathan Latimer
Unless there's an officer-involved shooting or some other high-profile event going on, the Homicide Office is dead in the middle of the night.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost," George said. "Now that's what I call a busy evening." Lockwood nodded. "To think some people just watch television.
~ Jonathan Stroud
You kill, you lie, you rob, you hit old men and steal their boots. I only thank God you draw the line at swearing - it would have been just too dreadful otherwise.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I see. Yes, you kill, you lie, you rob, you hit old men and steal their boats. I only thanks the gods you draw the line at swearing — it would have been just too dreadful otherwise.
~ Jonathan Stroud
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
~ Emma Goldman
J'ai pensé qu'écrire cette histoire ne pouvait être qu'un crime ou une prière.
~ Emmanuel Carrère
12. All the earth has been corrupted by the effects of the teaching of Azazyel. To him therefore ascribe the whole crime.
~ Enoch
His organizational and administrative talents in a criminal activity were accompanied by an astonishing 'inability to think'.
~ Enzo Traverso
compensation that was often paid not the victim herself but to her father or husband, since rape counted less as sexual violence against a woman than as a property crime against her male guardian.
~ Eric Jager
most of the devolution of our contemporary culture can be traced directly to the brokenness of men today. Whether the issue is faithfulness, crime, poverty, or a myriad of other social ills; at the core is the failure of men to become what God has created them to be.
~ Eric Mason
Love is one of the most powerful motivations there is. Love, hate, greed: the holy trinity of murder.
~ Erica Spindler
Force-feeding is a crime of passion, driven by a parent's desire to see a child eat; as with other crimes of passion, the perpetrator has lost sight of the loved one's autonomy.
~ Bee Wilson
I sighed and went back to my book, in which Morgoth nicked the eponymous jewels and had away with them back to Angbad. Sorry mate, I thought, not my jurisdiction. Did you have them insured? Whereupon Fëanor gets a crime number and a leaflet about being on guard against theft and the wiles of the personification of evil.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Dr Walid walked me past the security at reception and introduced me to today's dead body.
~ Ben Aaronovitch