Quotes About Crime

Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander.

Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.

Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

Hearn's death was happily smudged, or at least on the surface, but ever since the second ambush he had been feeling the apprehension of a man in a dream who knows he is guilty, is waiting for his punishment, and cannot remember his crime.

A criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart.

Capital punishment is symbolic of society's determination to enforce all of its laws. If we don't enforce the severest of our laws, the criminal mind might conclude (punishments of) other laws won't be imposed against them

They had to recognize, Woods warned, that the law wanted to keep psychopathy and psychosis apart. If the psychopath were ever accepted as legally insane, then crime, judgment, and punishment would be replaced by antisocial act, therapy, and convalescence.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, said Citizen. Oh my, said Rigg. They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?

I hear they whip you for stealing. Or put you in jail, or sell you into slavery, or kill you, depending on the town and what mood they're in.

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

le mauvais goût mène au crime (Thaddeus Sholto)

Existe una roja hebra criminal en la madeja incolora de la vida, y nuestra misión consiste en desenredarla, aislarla, y poner al descubierto sus más insignificantes sinuosidades.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

The sheriff shook his head. Dope, he said. Dope. They sell that shit to school kids. It's worse than that. How's that? School kids buy it.

Pomisli da možda u istoriji sveta ?ak i ima više kazni nego zlo?ina, ali ne bi mu to uteha.

The crimes of the moonlight melonmounter followed him as crimes will.

I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution. I didnt have to go but I did. I sure didnt want to. He'd killed a fourteen year old girl and I can tell you right now I never did have no great desire to visit with him let alone go to his execution but I done it.

She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners.

There is no need, Capricorn finally began, raising his voice, for me to explain to most of you why the three prisoners you see there are to be punished. For the rest, it is enough for me to say it is for treachery, loose talk, and stupidity. One may argue, of course, over whether or not stupidity is a crime deserving of death. I think it is, for it can have exactly the same consequences as treachery.