Quotes About Crime

It was the first time in as long as I could remember that hunger wasn't a punishment or a crime or a weapon or a mode of self-destruction. It was simply a way of being in love. Sometimes

God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy Book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

society is at the mercy of a murderer without a motive

After Killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper…

If our neighbors were white, they'd be victims of the same crime that plagues black folk. You are right, however, about those proportions. Ninety-three percent of black folk who are killed are killed by other black folk. But 84 percent of white folk who are killed are killed by other white folk. It's not necessary to modify the noun murder with the adjective black. It happens in the white world too.

Pride and joy of Crime Town, USA." It was an old nickname, went back almost fifty years, but people still attached it to Youngstown, a gritty factory town an hour from Cleveland.

They had been double-crossed in the act of double-crossing, which was probably what they should have expected from the start, especially knowing that the dead man at their feet was an American.

We had two dead white girls in a city that was six-sevenths black.

Bad things had a way of happening to people who opened their mouths in the Murder Capital of the United States.

One kills so many people, these days, that it's hard to keep track.

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know what crimes have been committed. - The Man in the Iron Mask (155)

Green's first victim was found on the North York Moors, which is why the papers called him the 'Beast of Whitby'. He went on to rape and kill at least two more children, one of whom he lured into his van using kittens that he'd collected from a local animal shelter. He pleaded guilty to the murders, but died within a year, beaten to death in a prison exercise yard

You know what we have to do?" The Italian nodded. "I know." "You don't look too happy about it." "Defacing a beautiful building is a crime." "But killing people is not?" Dee asked. "Well, people can always be replaced.

In other words, a gun is twenty-two times more likely to be used in a criminal assault, an accidental death or injury, a suicide attempt, or a homicide than it is for self-defense.67

It's an uphill battle, especially because many religious people still believe that being gay is a sin and a crime and, therefore, by their logic, "if homosexuals are allowed their civil rights, then so would prostitutes, thieves, and anyone else." These words were spoken by Anita Bryant—former entertainer and orange juice representative—who now has the honor of an award in her name, to be given to lucky winners for "unbridled and unparalleled bigotry.

The public couldn't get enough; writers such as Braddon reaped a new financial harvest with every book. She admitted that she cranked out some volumes as bill-paying hack work. Once she complained to Bulwer Lytton that "the amount of crime, treachery, murder, slow poisoning & general infamy required by the halfpenny reader is something terrible,

Se gândi la toÈ›i oamenii care coexist? f?r? vreun motiv aparent, în inima aceluiaÈ™i oraÈ™, f?r? vreun interes sau vreo preocupare comune, urmând traiectorii neb?nuite È™i divergente, dar aduÈ™i împreun? de sex sau de crim?.

certaines féministes souhaitaient aller plus loin, permettre le prononcé de peines plus lourdes en introduisant la notion de « féminicide » dans le Code pénal, ce que je trouvais plutôt amusant, ça faisait penser à insecticide, ou à raticide.

Ninguna cultura del espíritu, me recordó, había sido capaz de desarrollarse jamás en las sociedades con un alto índice de delincuencia, simplemente porque la seguridad física es la condición del pensamiento libre, y ninguna reflexión, ninguna poesía, ningún pensamiento mínimamente creativo ha logrado nacer nunca en un individuo que tenga que preocuparse de su supervivencia, que tenga que estar siempre en guardia.

The suburbs are a scary place. I'm glad I live in New York City, where crime is more predictable.

It is my job as an investigative psychologist to try to decipher the serial killer's particular fantasy from his crime scene. The fantasy will point to the fixation which will give us a key to understanding the killer we are investigating. The better we understand him, the more likely we are to catch him.

Why can't serial killers take turns? Why do they have to come at us three or four at a time?

rather not give a serial killer a second chance in life, for he might be giving someone else a first chance of losing his life.