Quotes About Crime

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

If you want to use force to protect your family, guard yourself from attack, fight against wrongdoing, prevent crime, and engage in a so-called "good war," you have been co-opted by the siren song of violence.

The politician, small or lofty, who menaces the people with frequent reminders of the possibility of crime, violence, or terrorism, and who then uses their magnified fear to gain allegiance, is more likely to be a successful con artist than a legitimate leader.

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall, for fuck's sake.

The criminality added a certain spice to an otherwise stultifying existence in an utterly boring location.

is even worse than fear for oneself. The shadows of madness became longer as the day progressed, and even though it was certain that crime could have no permanence, it was unfortunately uncertain how long and how far God would permit this trial to go, for I am sorry to say that in history there are many examples of extended periods of darkness.

Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.

You don't have anything new to say, Ethelred, but you carry on writing crime novels. I mean, it's fine. Your readers don't like new stuff. It frightens the shit out of them.

Martin Edwards

If you could not picture what people endured, how could you figure out what drove them to crime?

America's current economic decline must be halted, or else one day the crime that is rampant in the streets of New York and Washington, D.C. may develop into low intensity conflict by coalescing along racial, religious, social, and political lines, and run completely out of control

So we're not trying to stop organized crime," said Bruno. "We're just trying to organize it better.

there was just a game. They had killed someone and they thought it was funny. How had she allowed that to happen? How had

When I did Dangerous Lady, they told me it was too violent and I said – she's hardly going to hit them with her handbag!

Un amargo destino persigue a los romanos, y el crimen de dar muerte a un hermano , desde que la sangre del inocente Remo fue derramada en la tierra, una maldición que recayó sobre sus descendientes».

I've watched so many mystery stories on T.V, when I turn off the set I wipe my finger-prints off the dial.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women.

'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s

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just as you're looking into her daughter's murder?

Quiero decir que la legitimidad de una cosa no viene determinada por la cantidad de valor que exige. Debió de requerir mucho valor asesinar a Abraham Lincoln, por ejemplo. ?Muy cierto. Yo diría que probablemente han sido más los individuos con complejos de inferioridad que han cometido delitos para demostrar su virilidad que incluso los que lo han hecho por dinero.

This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.