Quotes About Crime

says Joseph Smith, "is co-equal with God himself." What greater crime than the minimizing of such capacity? The Prophet continues, "All the minds and spirits that God ever sent into the world are susceptible of enlargement.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

My wife is in the heroin business and I am not on good terms with her,' Devendra said. Jayshree, who was also upset with her mother's attempts to keep her away from her lover and force her into the drug trade, also decided to stand witness against her. Papamani was finally convicted and put behind bars in 2004. It was ironic that the two people for whom Papamani earned turned against her. While she had so many followers, none of them were in her family.

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

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Bad Men Do What Good Men

gangbanging was pretty much "on-sight." Meaning, if you got caught in the wrong place wearing the wrong color, they'd just shoot you.

the criminal life seduce you. Very few people survive it.

into the life of crime and made it real to me. I went everywhere with his books, idolizing him. A lot of people don't know this, but in 1976 Iceberg recorded an album called Reflections, which had a lot of slick rhyming. I used to spit his words back verbatim. The gangbangers used to constantly say, "Yo, kick

I wanted to learn everything I could about the faces of addiction. I wanted to understand all the ripple effects of crime and violence.

Those who commit the murders write the reports

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

Vosotros, que pasáis por este puente, no prosigáis. El crimen y el vicio habitan aquí; un día, sus amigos aguardaron en vano a un joven que había cruzado la puerta fatal.

A Texas bank robber wrote his hold-up note on the back of his resume, on which he lied about his earlier robberies.

A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes through him as if he ran head-on into a stone wall. A voice from the car says blurredly, while the ground rushes up to meet him, 'Finish him up, you guys! I'm getting so I don't trust their looks no more, no matter how stiff they act!' ("Jane Brown's Body")

Murder is such an elastic term, isn't it? ("Mind Over Murder")

One sometimes kills for the love of it.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

Kindness to a killer builds coffins.

Capital punishment is an extreme sanction that would perhaps have been suitable for this most extreme of crimes, but we make mistakes, and taking another life due to human error is the worst we can do in a society based on law. And even if we get it right, killing the killer is not going to bring back the victims.

We might be a bit slow on some things down in the South, but we know murder.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Like many other people, Mrs. Marshall imagined that business in the criminal courts was a succession of breath-taking thrills, that every case was a drama, every counsel a cross-examiner of genius "who could get anything out of you if he tried", every speech a torrent of eloquence, every Judge a Solon.