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Quotes About Crime

Denmark has incredibly low crime rates, and parents feel that what a child needs most is frisk luft, or fresh air. The
~ Frans de Waal
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
~ Freda Adler
There are some men whose crimes surpass comprehension and therefore forgiveness, and here is the real failure. For they are still among us
~ Frederick Forsyth
Deine These war, dass die menschliche Unvollkommenheit, die Tatsache, dass wir die Handlungsweise anderer nie mit Sicherheit vorauszusagen, und dass wir ferner den Zufall, der in alles hineinspielt, nicht in unsere Überlegung einzubauen vermögen, der Grund sei der die meisten Verbrechen zwangsläufig zutage fördern müsse.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Ich wurde ein immer besserer Verbrecher und du ein immer besserer Kriminalist.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest...
~ Brandon Sanderson
How do you accidentally kill a lord in his own manor?' with a knife to the chest...well a pair of knives actually, one can never be too careful
~ Brandon Sanderson
Leniency and mercy. Men set free despite crimes, because they were good fathers, or well liked in the community, or in the favor of someone important. "Some of those who are set free change their lives and go on to produce for society. Others recidivate and create great tragedies. The thing is, Szeth son Neturo, we humans are terrible at spotting which will be which. The purpose of the law is so we do not have to choose. So our native sentimentality will not harm us.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Looks like we're going to need a new prime suspect, Wax," Wayne said. "This one downright refuses to not be dead already.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Lock a man in prison, and you might stop him from committing crimes. Teach a man to respect himself and his community, and you stopped everyone he might have taught, recruited, or bullied.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Her personal studies proved that crime went down when people had a sense of identity with and ownership of their community.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What's a crook, only a businessman without a shop.
~ Brendan Behan
I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
He dedicado mucho tiempo de mi vida a los crímenes y a las investigaciones de los mismos. Mi planteamiento es que el mal siempre es fruto de las circunstancias, nunca es congénito. He escrito sobre crímenes porque ilustran mejor que ninguna otra cosa las contradicciones que constituyen la base de la vida humana.
~ Henning Mankell
Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace," Lundstr
~ Henning Mankell
Il concetto di giustizia non significa solo che le persone che commettono reati vengano condannate. Significa anche non arrendersi mai.
~ Henning Mankell
fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other.
~ Henning Mankell
It's about contradictions between us and inside us, between individuals and society, between dream and reality. Sometimes these contradictions express themselves in violence, such as racial conflict. And this mirror of crime can take us back to the Greek authors.
~ Henning Mankell
Establishing the line between a lie and a fact, the real truth, is the basis of all police work. - Kurt Wallander
~ Henning Mankell
They say there's a crime behind every fortune.
~ Henning Mankell
Tutte le domande continuano a rimanere senza risposta, pensò. Passo la mia vita a cercare di assicurare alla giustizia dei criminali che hanno commesso una serie di reati. Ogni tanto ci riesco, ma il più delle volte fallisco. Ma quando arriverò alla fine della mia vita dovrò constatare di avere fallito in quella che è la più importante delle ricerche. Quel mistero stravagante che è la vita rimarrà irrisolto.
~ Henning Mankell
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Ainsi, sous le nom d'Ordre et de Gouvernement Civique, nous sommes tous amenés à rendre hommage et allégeance à notre propre médiocrité. On rougit d'abord de son crime et puis on s'y habitue ; et le voilà qui d'immoral devient amoral et non sans usage dans la vie que nous nous sommes fabriquée.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
~ Henry David Thoreau