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Quotes About Crime

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.
~ George Orwell
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
~ Michael Parenti
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
~ George Santayana
It is not a war. It is murder.
~ Noam Chomsky
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
~ Olavo de Carvalho
You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.
~ Molly Crabapple
You're convinced that there was nothing important here—nothing that would point to any motive. SHERIFF: Nothing here but kitchen things.
~ Susan Glaspell
His preliminarily interviews at the scene
~ Susan May
The man was committing all sorts of crimes here. Thievery of her heart. Kidnapping of her common sense, and maybe even first-degree murder of her righteous anger.
~ Susan May Warren
In 1921, actor Fatty Arbuckle was arrested for the rape and murder of an aspiring actress named Virginia Rappe, who had been drunk and injecting morphine at the time of her murder.
~ Susan Orlean
It is hard to imagine a more perfect crime than one in which the weapon disappears and the act itself can unfold almost unnoticeably.
~ Susan Orlean
Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental.
~ Susann Cokal
The killer might do it again and then we could start to put things together. Leave our minds open, let what we know work its way round our brain. Some smart detective might pick up something.
~ Susanna Moore
This happens all the time," he said. "You know what I'm saying?" "What happens? "Murder." I was silent. "That's the thing about it. It never stops. Never.
~ Susanna Moore
The English criminal code, later known as the "Bloody Code," was brutal in the late 18th century. By the time the first legal reforms were enacted in 1826, 220 crimes—many of them relatively petty crimes against property as Dickens describes in the rest of the paragraph—were punishable by death.
~ SUSANNE ALLEYN
Just remember, stealing's punishable by death
~ Suzanne Collins
With 'Crime Alert's first season, the channel gave me the opportunity and also pushed me to become a producer. That was something new that I explored.
~ Sudha Chandran
I am not sorry for my crime.
~ Leon Czolgosz
Ek Hasina Thi' is a love story that went sour.
~ Sriram Raghavan
I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
~ Mandy Patinkin