Quotes About Crime

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

This book is about the great still-unfolding massive crime of official and unofficial America against Africa, African slaves, and their descendants in America.

We needed every detail of the crimes to get him charged; I had to walk him through them. I was like a tourist visiting Hell. I tried to memorize his words, retain all the details of the crimes, while at the same time warding off visions of the events. It was like watching a movie with my eyes closed.

crime has become the preoccupation of genuises in this technotyrannical twittering society. There are those who will show -a love/hate relationship with the rest of the populus.

political inhumanity- this is the inhumanity shown by government against its own people or any people who runs to it for help and safety, yet is blatantly denied access to care. It should be classified as a crime- against humanity, and those responsible should face the prosecutorial justice of the world court.

When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.

Organized crime is just the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

Crime was like litter tossed on the highway: once it was shoved out the window the only ones who cared were the ones close to where it landed.

I like cable stuff; I really do - 'American Horror Story,' 'American Crime Story.'

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

Only criminals want to use cash.

A criminal has no caste and is only a criminal.

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.

You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.

I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.

If a superhero is a community superhero, then is he going to protect his community by controlling everything? If he decides to control crime, does that make him a crime boss? Does that make him a criminal?

If we go back to the birth of 'Superman' and 'Batman' in America in the '30s, they were created because of events like the Great Depression, crime and Al Capone, among others. Everybody was corrupt back then, and if you can't have a hero in real life, it helps to have one in your fantasies.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

I think if you look back at some of the stuff that we broadly label as the crime 'ouvre,' there are certainly elements of the supernatural at work.

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.