Quotes About Crime

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?

That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

Hawksmoor had often noticed how, in the moments when he first carne upon a corpse, all the objects around it wavered for an instant and became unreal- the trees which rose above a body hidden in woodland, the movement of the river which had washed a body onto its banks, the cars or hedges in a suburban street where a murderer had left a victim, all of these things seemed at such times to be suddenly drained of meaning like an hallucination.

He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.

Only the government could have made a 'terrorist' out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope….I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime here except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to fruition." Nonetheless

When a theological world view dominated, deviance was sin; when the nation-states emerged from the decay of feudalism, most deviance became designated as crime; and in our own scientifically oriented world, various forms of deviance are designated increasingly as medical problems. Thus we view the medical paradigm as the ascending paradigm for deviance designations in our postindustrial society.

and wherever they chose. The formidable Bill Sikes glowered and menaced and planned robberies. Oliver Twist—to the best of Dodger's knowledge—was lying in a ditch somewhere and might well be dead. And Nancy, that tragic woman whose fundamental goodness of femininity had been diminished and dimmed, but not destroyed, by her life as a slattern whore, was still practicing her trade

Uh, after the meeting was over, this is what Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I didn't see it but I heard that uh, [Platinum official] Mark [Peretz] Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and uh, his bodyguard [Paris Christoforou of the Hells Angels] I guess Ã¢â'¬Â¦ kicked [Modica] in the face and put a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ gun in his mouth.

Squeezing too hard on people outside the underworld—or "legits"—was a recipe for disaster. Squeeze legits too hard and they run to the police. Montagna didn't seem to understand or care.

But a sneer can be a greater crime than a murder subjectively, for a sneer means "You are beneath contempt, you are sub-human, you are worthless scum, you are not even worth taking the trouble and time to kill", while a murder may mean "You are important and formidable and you are my enemy, and thus I must kill you." That can be a compliment, compared to a sneer.

I really was put out of Germany for the crime of blasphemy... My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man

Murder is the one crime that can't be put right. It upsets the balance. The dead can't be restored like stolen property; death doesn't heal like physical or emotional scars left by assault or rape. It's final. The end...

Murder scenes in particular got them going: sex and death, the old aphrodisiac combination.

It's an odd thing is a professional gone bad. They talk about bent coppers, but what about bent lawyers, bent accountants, bent doctors? If push came to shove, would you expect one crooked businessman to stick up for another?

fronts for Rothwell's illegal activities. As Susan was wondering if Robert Calvert's money

Hutu power had presided over one of the most outrageous crimes in a century of seemingly relentless mass political murder, and the only way to get away with it was to continue to play the victim.

That's right." The girl slowed down, spun on her heel and peered at the dark pavement. "The criminal, or japer, or whatever he is, painted the statue red. You know that; you saw the drops. He sloshed it with stripes, painted the hair red, too. And—" She smiled brightly. "Well, frankly, he severed the head, somehow. With a power cutting tool, evidently. Removed the head and placed it in the outstretched hand.

We've sifted through the eight thousand, don't worry about that. And this is the one. This is the murder weapon, no doubt about it. Then the President has been murdered? I cant tell you that right now. But I can assure you that if there has been a murder, this is what did it.

97Blacks, Jews most likely victim of US hate crimes: FBI, Agence FrancePresse, November 22, 2010.

Take away the family as a cohesive unit, and the spread of drugs, crime, teenage pregnancy and truancy seemed easier to explain.