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Quotes About Crime

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.
~ James Surowiecki
floor in a pool of blood. His eyes were open. Blood and saliva trickled from his mouth. The
~ Beverly Barton
Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.
~ Bill Bryson
Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it's going to pass through nine murder victims.
~ Bill Bryson
The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.
~ Bill Bryson
Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, We all do.
~ Bill Bryson
He agreed with Laughlin that sterilization was necessary in society "to prevent our being swamped with incompetence." Then he gave his solution: "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.
~ Bill Bryson
Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was clear and deliberate murder, but if a parent slapped or shook a child and the child died and the parent said the kid fell down the steps, the police virtually never followed up.
~ Bill James
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
~ Bill Maher
Every day in America is a day with a shooting.
~ Bill Maher
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
~ Blaise Pascal
If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime
~ Bob Dylan
d.c. is the nation's capital. It also leads the country in murder
~ Bob Mayer
Dela govore mnogim svojim elementima: temama, situacijama, sižeima, junacima. Ali, više od svega, ona govore umetnoš?u koja je u njima prisutna. Prisustvo umetnosti na stranicama Zlo?ina i kazne mnogo je potresnije od samog Raskoljnikovljevog zlo?ina.
~ Boris Pasternak
If Gisele murdered her husband, I can assure you my Henri wasn't involved. He's much too lazy for murder.
~ Brad Meltzer
Nan told me Clegg had been hanged for stealing a book, but the charge Robert Findhelm brought against him was not theft. The charge Findhelm brought against him was book-murder.
~ Susanna Clarke
A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime.
~ Sydney Smith
Chris wasn't blameless, either. Taking a grieving, troubled boy into his home had to have been hard—especially when he'd been building his own family with Christopher Jr. and Ireland on the way. But he'd accepted the role of stepfather when he married Elizabeth. He shared responsibility for pursuing justice for a wounded and exploited child. Hell, a stranger would have an obligation to report the crime.
~ Sylvia Day
Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner.
~ Tartt Donna
criminalist
~ Ted Bell
BoneMan still had his back to him and was turning with a stunned stare. The head of the sledgehammer landed on the side of the man's head with a sickening crack.
~ Ted Dekker
If you know a person's history, you can use it to help predict what that person might do. A person's history can be the key to understanding his motivation for committing a crime.
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming
I'm sure that DNA testing will rule Dean out as a suspect, because there's no way he could have been
~ Julianne MacLean
On peut être criminel sans sans avoir jamais manié une arme ou une pince-monseigneur.
~ Juliette Benzoni