Quotes About Crime

back in the seventies four women were killed. Librarians....

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

If you're gonna catch criminals, you got to be a bit of one yourself.

They'll want him to be mad, of course,' Laszlo mused, not hearing me. 'The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they'd like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the head. It creates certain … difficulties, if we are forced to accept that our society can produce sane men who commit such acts.

To clear up a murder you must do your own killing

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

While we are quick to judge the human rights record of every other country on earth, it is we civilized Americans whose murder rate is ten times that of other Western nations, we civilized Americans who kill women and children with the most alarming frequency. In

building prisons is our number one social program for young men

In Connecticut the crime of oral sex could be punishable by a thirty-year jail term. In Ohio it was one to twenty years. In Georgia such a "crime against nature" could lead a practitioner to life imprisonment at hard labor- a penalty far more severe than having sex with animals, which in Georgia was punishable by only five years.

head lulled to one side, a trickle of blood dripped down the front of her dress, and her eyes stared at the ceiling, wide and unseeing. And totally dead.

How do you feel about stealing cars?

Involvements with glamorous female cat burglars never end up well.

In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation

Americans have been slaughtering one another in record numbers, in what can only be called America's secret war against itself.

Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat faille.

an act of violence based solely on an individual's racial origin is as abhorrent a crime as it is possible to commit, not least because of its futility and utter stupidity. It is a crime for those at the bottom of the gene pool. The work of morons.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

At certain stations he would view the stream,As if he stood bewildered in a dream,Or that some power had chained him for a time,To feel a curse or meditate on crime.

He's that detective. Galatas.

The law's made to take care o' raskills.

There is a quote attributed to Honoré de Balzac: behind every great fortune there is a great crime.

Catalina," Grandma Frida called out behind me. "When you're done cutting up the body, call me. I'll help you hide it." I turned and looked at her. Grandma flexed her arm. "Ride or die.