Quotes About Crime

To protect his life and to prevent any felony, an Englishman was free to inflict even a mortal wound on a would-be felon.

THE NEXT DAY THEY FOUND the body of Charlene Gray lying in a thicket of young madrone just below the Steep Ravine Trail, near where it intersected with Little Salmon Creek.

a person would need more than one good kick to stop a murderer.

killed before her, had been covered in tape, in the

victims.' 'And no doubt it will not be the last,' Boris commented helpfully into his glass of whisky. 'Do you want

Luis Alfredo Garavito

No es la lucha de clases, sino guerras de pobres contra pobres, los trabajadores y los lúmpenes dedicados al robo y al narcotráfico.

Why should joy be banned forever? Why do they think that thinking is a crime? Why do they put clamps on ideas? The Law's judgments should rest on facts alone, proven, consummated facts.

Authoritarian, secretive, sometimes grandiose, and even paranoid, the perpetrator is nevertheless exquisitely sensitive to the realities of power and to social norms. Only rarely does he get into difficulties with the law; rather, he seeks out situations where his tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired. His demeanor provides an excellent camouflage, for few people believe that extraordinary crimes can be committed by men of such conventional appearance.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.

I think people will always be interested in crimes of passion. And I don't think you can do a genre-heavy show and not be influenced by successful, beautiful stories that have gone before.

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

Very little other than Elmore Leonard's crime writing inspiring me on my Batman run.

I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of the police in a different way.

The Scandis blew the crime genre out of the water and the Americans have been doing interesting things with it for years.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

In un paese dove ognuno poteva essere felice, volere diversamente era una trasgressione, agire diversamente un delitto.

The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men.

It's a very lucrative field, you see. Keeping gangsters and corporate sharks out of jail.

Roiters said, "I always felt that the kid had blood on his hands.

A rape in Jewtown," Marge muttered. "I've always thought of the place as sacrosanct. Sort of like a convent. Who'd rape a nun?" "Who'd rape, period?" Decker said. "Good point.