Quotes About Crime

There were certain truths one might call self-evident—that a red flashing light meant danger, that punishment had very little to do with crime, that a knock on the door in the middle of the night is always feared within.

Roger Høibakk flirte og tenkte i det stille at han var heldig som hadde holdt seg unna familielivet. I kriminallitteraturen hadde aldri, eller nesten aldri, etterforskere familie, i alle fall ikke unger. Hverken i bøkene til Kim Småge, Gunnar Staalesen eller Anne Holt.

Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine went 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.

You might think that the most stolen vehicles are expensive sports vehicles or multipurpose passenger vehicles, but that's not always the case

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

You know it's a bad case when the only way you can catch up on your sleep is to get unconscious.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

I think this guy's dead," the coroner said, scooting another inch or two, to be safe. "There's something wrong here," Tom said. They both looked at him. "No, I'm pretty sure of it," the coroner said. "That bullet hole, for one thing. Plus, he's not breathing. That's the kind of thing we look for.

In the conflicts between capital and labour, the army has often intervened against labour - never against capital. In court the defense of the poor is nothing short of impossible, because of the cost of any judicial action; in effect, a worker can neither bring a case nor defend one. The overwhelming majority of crimes are directly caused by poverty and come into the category of attacks on property. The overwhelming majority of prison inmates are from the poor.

To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.

When a criminal is rattled what does he do? He starts making mistakes.

The man who tells you nothing frightens him is whistling in the dark. Besides, fear is not necessarily bad. It may guard you from harm. And I suspect that fear of being caught, punished and disgraced keeps many more of us from committing crimes than does the voice of conscience'.

The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.