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Quotes About Crime

None of us were surprised when he switched to a career of crime. He was something of a lech. He made one of the students pregnant.
~ Jasper Fforde
He was shot dead in the old town during a bookbuy that went wrong.
~ Jasper Fforde
The Nursery Crime Division was not disbanded and is still active to this day.
~ Jasper Fforde
I can't begin to imagine the shock of having a body fall out of the fireplace. And your aunt's fireplace, at that. She was a vegan, for heaven's sake. She killed him, Mom. She didn't eat him.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
The perfect criminal is the one who lays claim to the crime he has not committed. Who conceals his innocence behind the mask of crime. He is much harder to unmask.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The proof of how poorly grounded freedom is is that depriving someone of their freedom itself no longer means anything. Impossible to find an equivalence between the crime and the punishment or, therefore, any possible 'justice'. Given the extension of responsibility and its ramification into all networks, the irresponsibility is the same everywhere.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It is, it seems, a social crime to desire solitude.
~ Jean Cocteau
Quelques crimes toujours précèdent les grands crimes. Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés; Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés, Et jamais on n'a vu la timide innocence Passer subitement à l'extrême licence.
~ Jean Racine
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It did make me hate them – not all the time – but with the hatred of the helpless; a flaring, subsiding hatred that gradually became the bed of the relationship. A hatred made of coal, and burning low like coal, and fanned up every time there was another crime, another punishment.
~ Jeanette Winterson
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Una declaración de guerra no es tanto una advertencia a las potencias, como a sus súbditos. El extranjero, bien sea rey, bien sea particular, bien sea pueblo, que roba, mata o apresa a un súbdito sin declarar la guerra al príncipe, no es un enemigo; es un ciminal.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. "Well, there you go", she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. "If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't", she said. "So many women make such a big deal out of these things. But you're stronger then that", she went back to her crossword puzzle.
~ Jeannette Walls
The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do? To kill your victims? But they already had the seed of death in them; all you could do was to hasten its fruition by a year or two.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
~ Jane Fonda
There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.
~ Scott Adams
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
~ African Spir
Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.
~ Ben Wheatley
Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.
~ Brady Corbet
I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.
~ George Carlin
If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.
~ George W. Bush
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.
~ Jerry Brown
Straw purchasing is illegal.
~ Jason Chaffetz