Quotes About Crime

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.

Who is this idiot, Jess? He's willing to kill you and rape a woman, but doesn't want to hurt a minor. Is he kidding? Criminals have to have some standards, baby. Jess sounded amused.

quiere vivir algo que se parezca a una experiencia extraordinaria, una batalla, una historia de amor, una aventura límite, un crimen incluso. Cielo o infierno, qué importa, pero un gran drama que lo saque de esta vida sin porvenir y que justifique su existencia. Entonces sí podría dormir plácidamente sobre sus laureles, o sobre sus espinas, sabiendo que ha vivido.

If the killer had really wanted to keep his victim's provenance hidden, he would have taken the head far away, or simply weighted it and thrown it into the fast-flowing tide of the Thames. The invention of the garbage bag had been a boon to murderers everywhere.

The first one, his first sight of a dead body. That had changed everything. A fall from innocence, and the start of a lifelong fascination with violent crime.

There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom of crime.

La loi pakistanaise permet de condamner une femme à subir un viol collectif afin d'expier la honte d'une crime commis par son frère.

Kyralia estaria muy bien gobernada, si gobernar fuera un delito

and I saw that it is one thing for a crowd, in an almost ecstatic frenzy, mistaking the laws of the devil for those of the Lord, to commit a massacre, but it is another thing for an individual to commit a crime in cold blood, with calculation, in silence.

Benno blushed violently. "I am not a murderer!" he protested. "No one is, until he commits his first crime," William said philosophically.

Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.

The discipline is based on one grisly fact: a corpse makes a good lunch.

Wherever you are, somebody's inflicting horror on another human being. It's just that there are some environments where it's easier to get away with it.

kill. He's a man obsessed and he's determined to

injuries were consistent with murder rather than accident.

Which translated, Stacey thought cynically, to 'If you're going to break the law – what I don't know can't hurt me.

macerating what was left of the organs, 'liver, a portion of the heart, a certain

Brutal crimes didn't spring from nowhere; their seeds lay in the wider crimes of the community they impinged on.

In real life, you only get one shot at the homicide crime scene.

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the same flesh during, the same ashes after. But when ignorance is mixed with human dough, it blackens it. This incurable blackness takes over man's insides and there turns into evil… Destroy the dark hold, Ignorance, and you destroy the mole, Crime.