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Quotes About Crime

Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.
~ David Levithan
We all have the potential to commit the crime. We chose not to. Every single day, we chose not to. I am no different
~ David Levithan
Murders by acquaintances, friends, and family are much more common than murders by strangers.
~ David M. Buss
Adolescent men often live in a world where available women are in scarce supply, because women prefer mature men with position and affluence. Young men's strategies reflect these local conditions of female scarcity, because they engage in highly risky competition strategies, committing the vast majority of violent crimes of sexual coercion, robbery, battery, and murder.
~ David M. Buss
The Right has been hamstrung in resistance by adherence to law; for, to a conservative, what greater crime than adopting terror (the rejection of law) to preserve law? (Compare this from the Vietnam War: "We destroyed the village in order to save
~ David Mamet
Misleading the ABC is not quite the same as misleading the parliament as a political crime.
~ David Marr
I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search the train station for a serial rapist and I cover my face with a newspaper, wondering if maybe I did it in my sleep. The last thing I stole was an eight-track tape, but to this day I'm unable to enter a store without feeling like a shoplifter. It's all the anxiety with none of the free stuff.
~ David Sedaris
That man tried to picka my frienda's pocketoni!
~ David Sedaris
There are only two places to get robbed: TV and the real world. On television you get your stuff back. In the real world, if you're lucky, the policeman who responds to your call will wonder what kind of computer it was. Don't let this get your hopes up. Chances are he's asking only because he has a software question.
~ David Sedaris
Als Kain seinen Bruder Abel um die Ecke brachte, glauben Sie bloß nicht, dass der Alte da oben ein paar uniformierte Grünschnäbel zu den Ermittlungen schickte. Verdammt, nein, er holte einen Detective.
~ David Simon
los mejores inspectores de homicidios admitirán que en noventa de cada cien casos lo que salva la investigación es la abrumadora predisposición del asesino a la incompetencia o, cuando menos, al error garrafal.
~ David Simon
To think of a hate crime as the most uniquely heinous of crimes seems to lend it, in my mind, an undeserved aura of power. I'd rather something else. The police are investigating this crime as an acute abjection. The police are investigating this as a crime pitiful as it is appalling, pathetic as it is monstrous.
~ Zadie Smith
I want to do an action film, I would love to do a period drama, a biopic, a crime story.
~ Tisca Chopra
I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
~ Gillian Flynn
Broadchurch' has always been about the impact of crime, on all those affected.
~ Chris Chibnall
We have some of the best intelligence and crime fighting agencies in the world.
~ Amber Rudd
Do you believe that there is any absolute standard in this world? Despise mankind and find out the meshes that you can slip through in the net of the Code. The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
~ Honore de Balzac
El secreto de las grandes fortunas sin causa aparente es un crimen olvidado, porque se ha cometido de una manera limpia. –Silencio,
~ Honore de Balzac
So he immolated himself. He made the sacrifice because he was a father; he went into voluntary exile. His daughters were satisfied, so he thought that he had done the best thing he could; but it was a family crime, and father and daughters were accomplices.
~ Honore de Balzac
There is one thing remarkable about women: they never reason about their blameworthy actions,—feeling carries them off their feet; even in their dissimulation there is an element of sincerity; and in women alone crime may exist without baseness, for it often happens that they do not know how it came about that they committed it.
~ Honore de Balzac
Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait. The secret of a great fortune made without apparent cause is soon forgotten, if the crime is committed in a respectable way.
~ Honore de Balzac
In the eyes of the Church,' said he, 'adultery is a crime; in those of your tribunals it is a misdemeanor. Adultery drives to the police court in a carriage instead of standing at the bar to be tried. Napoleon's Council of State, touched with tenderness towards erring women, was quite inefficient. Ought they not in this case to have harmonized the civil and the religious law, and have sent the guilty wife to a convent, as of old?
~ Honore de Balzac
Good times can be just as damaging to peace here in the United States. When the economy goes up, murders do not go down, they rise.
~ Howard Bloom
There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey