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Quotes About Crime

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
~ Diane Abbott
I wanted to look like the most diverse writer in comics! Spy genre, space genre, crime genre, and then you realize that it's all actually the same thing.
~ Tom King
Using flimsy evidence to spy on innocent citizens could very well be a crime.
~ Trish Regan
I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.
~ Boyd Holbrook
In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.
~ Veerappa Moily
Stalking is a serious crime with serious consequences.
~ Lisa Madigan
Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.
~ Lisa Madigan
Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.
~ David Grann
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.
~ Unknown
But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.
~ H. L. Mencken
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.
~ Dwayne Johnson
When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.
~ Donald E. Westlake
They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.
~ Jasper Carrott
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
~ Larry McMurtry
Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
~ Marquis de Sade
The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
~ Norm MacDonald
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
~ Aldrich Ames
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
~ Bill Vaughan
You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?
~ Jupiter Hammon