Quotes About Crime

In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no penalty, it is self-esteem.

After being arrested in June 2000, Reardon pleaded guilty of 75 counts of abuse, including rape, of 24 boys, and received up to 50 years in prison for his crimes. The YMCA quickly settled the boys' claims against it; but the church held out for another year.46 The Boston Archdiocese finally paid $85 million to settle the claims of 552 victims, including Reardon's, in September 2003.

You wonder about her crime. She was condemned to death for stealing clothes from her employer, from the wife of her employer. She wished to make herself more beautiful. This desire in servants was not legal. He was not condemned to death, freedom awaited.

above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...

It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron, iron is iron till it is rust. There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war, but I would not believe it. I inwardly did nothing. O Iscariot-like crime! Beauty is everlasting and dust is for a time.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

The 'thin blue line' is nothing more than the no snitching policy found in any other criminal gang.

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.