Quotes About Crime

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

New York is great though. If you?re here and want a one of a kind souvenir be sure to take home the police sketch of your assailant.

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes in Rallick's mind, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain.

The blood in the fine, white sand was only a few hours old, still gummy to the touch. The stench of loosened bowels soured the hazy air.

A pang of regret hit Tattersail upon meeting the boy's bright, eager gaze. Chances were, he'd be dead within a few months. The Empire had many crimes staining its banner, but this was the worst of them.

The notion of freedom could make even peace and order seem oppressive, generate the suspicion of some hidden purpose, some vast deceit, some unspecified crime being perpetrated beyond human ken. That was a generous way of looking at it; the alternative was to acknowledge that humans were intrinsically conflicted, cursed with acquisitive addictions of the spirit.

Unwitnessed. There was crime in that notion. A profound injustice against which he railed. In silence. Like every other soldier in the Bonehunters. Maybe. No, I am not mistaken – I see something in their eyes. I can see it. We rail against injustice, yes. That what we do will be seen by no-one. Our fate unmeasured.

Man or woman, disparaging love is a crime of the soul, for which the future will turn away its face.

Oh, we take you into slaughter without a moment's thought. And yes, some of you come to enjoy it, to lust for that cacophony, that violence, the reek of blood. And so we share with you, dear horse, our peculiar madness. But who judges us for this crime against you and your kind? No one. Unless you horses have a god.

Oh, we take you into slaughter without a moment's thought. And yes, some of you come to enjoy it, to lust for that cacophony, that violence, the reek of blood. And so we share with you, dear horse, our peculiar madness. But who judges us for this crime against you and your kind? No one. Unless your horses have a god.

the art critic Crémer reminds Wyatt of Degas's remark "that the artist must approach his work in the same frame of mind in which the criminal commits his deed

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul."

Da nessun'altra parte il reato commesso per necessità è tollerato come in Germania: è uno di quegli aspetti che i cappellani militari alleati chiamano mancanza di morale. Scendere in basso è più lecito che soccombere.

When I first became a policeman, I was often struck by the absurdity of most of the crime I encountered. Gradually what used to seem absurd began to seem quite normal.

A Holly Barker Novel

Di certo esistono almeno due cose al di sopra di ogni frontiera. Una è il crimine che, travesito da modernità, distribuisce la miseria su scala mondiale; l'altra è la speranza che la vergogna esista solo quando sbagliamo un passo di danza e non ogni volta che ci guardiamo allo specchio. Per porre fine al primo e far fiorire la seconda bisogna solo lottare ed essere migliore. Il resto viene da sé e in genere è quello che va a riempire le biblioteche e i musei.