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Quotes About Crime

By all appearances, the shooting had been self-defense or, at worst, a spur-of-the-moment crime of passion. Matters like these were traditionally settled quietly, especially when the accused was a highly respected, affluent individual with no criminal record. Savannahians were well aware of past killings in which well-connected suspects were never charged, no matter how obvious their guilt.
~ John Berendt
Is our society on the right lines when of of its most gifted people can find no better career than crime unless literally millions per year of public money are lavished on him? ?
~ John Brunner
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
~ Unknown
I remember times I had. Some were happy, some were sad. Memories, me and my partners in crime. Throwing up a thousand times.
~ Unknown
For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring their more criminal-intensive ways to small communities. We think we can be an antidote to that.
~ Curtis Sliwa
I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.
~ Unknown
I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
~ Nancy Reagan
Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
~ Unknown
As the greatest of detectives makes the greatest of criminals, a specialist in investigation is also a specialist in murder.
~ Unknown
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
~ Bobby Scott
I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.
~ Asa Hutchinson
Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.
~ Dianne Feinstein
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
~ Kamala Harris
Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling.
~ Henrique Capriles Radonski
When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.
~ Eric Greitens
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
~ Douglas Coupland
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
~ Karin Slaughter
Anything's possible in 'Line of Duty.'
~ Adrian Dunbar
Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
~ James Ellroy
The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
~ Pete Hamill
I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.
~ Marcia Clark