Quotes About Crime

It's your job to apprehend criminals?" "Only some. You have to do something remarkable to gain my attention.

Besides, it's been almost two weeks since anyone was brutally murdered. Things were getting a bit dull. We wouldn't want to die of boredom, would we?

You can't just murder the saint of Houston without some pomp and circumstance.

In short, we've been targeted by a Draziri crime syndicate specializing in murder and willing to assassinate their own priests." This was just getting better and better. Maud leaned back and laughed. I looked at her. "You don't do anything halfway," she said.

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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Yes! It must be done by showing contrasts: one word for misery, ten for egotism, cowardice, closing ranks, crime. Won't it be wonderful! But it's true that it's this very atmosphere I'm breathing. It is easy to imagine it: the obsession with food.

Ugliness didn't have a zip code. Crime happened everywhere.

male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.

There is a pointlessness of summer London more awful than anything which fogs or early afternoon twilights are able to evoke, a summer mood of yawning and glazing eyes and little nightmare-ridden sleeps in bored and desperate rooms. With this ennui, evil comes creeping through the city, the evil of indifference and sleepiness and lack of care. At such a time the long-fought temptation is wearily yielded to, and the long-dreamt-of crime is with shoulder-shrugging casualness committed at last.

It is necessary at this point to recount what actually occurred, as opposed to what was generally supposed to have occurred, on that terrible evening when Lucas killed a man.

Crime was not a cause, but a result; the prisons were the open sores of a diseased social body.

I'm being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

it is an advantage for the murderer to be in charge of the murder investigation.

Si lo que quieres es andar armado, entre ser delincuente o ser policía, es mejor ser policía, porque tienes impunidad.

Un matón a sueldo es lo mismo que una confesión de culpa.

Mientras los dueños del poder robaban sin escrúpulos, los ladrones de profesión o de necesidad apenas se atrevían a ejercer su oficio, porque el ojo de la policía estaba en todas partes.

Ya sé lo que está pensando, jefe: el primer sospechoso es el cónyuge, pero no nos sirve, porque David Rosen tiene una buena coartada. —¿Cuál? —Se murió de un paro cardíaco en 1988.

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The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.