Quotes About Crime

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

it's better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.

Yes, Adeimantus, they are stories not to be repeated in our State; the young man should not be told that in committing the worst of crimes he is far from doing anything outrageous; and that even if he chastises his father when he does wrong, in whatever manner, he will only be following the example of the first and greatest among the gods. I entirely agree with you, he said; in my opinion those stories are quite unfit to be repeated.

May we not say that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? Do not great crimes and the spirit of pure evil spring out of a fulness of nature ruined by education rather than from any inferiority whereas weak natures are scarcely capable of any very great good or very great evil?

It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or submit to, some outrage: the shame that the Germans did not know, that the just man experiences at another man's crime; the feeling of guilt that such a crime should exist, that it should have been introduced irrevocably into the world of things that exist, and that his will for good should have proved too weak or null, and should not have availed in defense.

Now Thorndyke is going to enjoy himself. To him a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy forever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery.

I'll phone the police

Next time we commit crime, we'll make sure to include him.

The scene is very Sopranos meets Rent.

Two murders and an act of arson. Junior was being a bold boy this evening

Balzac had written, "Behind every great fortune, there is a crime," which was both a cliché and a lie. However

David wondered what kind of dark-minded people wanted items from the abattoir of a rapist-murderer and how Stuart Ulrich knew where to advertise to attract their attention.

Criminals are as absurd as they are evil.

Sheriff Hayden Eckman

The Demolished Man.

Shivering pleasantly, Vince plucked the car keys off the floor where the dead man had dropped them, went into the garage, and opened the Cadillac's trunk, being careful not to touch any surface on which he might leave a clear fingerprint. The trunk was empty. Good. He carried Weatherby's corpse out of the laundry room, put it in the trunk, closed and locked the lid

At his computer, he accessed the National Crime Information Center website and went to the list of people for whom arrest warrants were outstanding. He sought the name Nathan Palmer—and began to make a list of curious facts.

Utopias, after all, are sought mostly by great fools, though also by dangerous charlatans, and more death and pain has been brought down on humanity by the pursuit of a perfect world than by all other crime combined.