Quotes About Crime

Besides, you are a born woman: feeble when it comes to the sublime, marvelously inventive over crime.

I propose today to prove to you that all this organized and vast criminality springs from what I may be allowed to call a crime against the spirit, I mean a doctrine which, denying all spiritual, rational, or moral values by which the nations have tried, for thousands of years, to improve human conditions, aims to plunge humanity back into barbarism, no longer the natural and spontaneous barbarism of primitive nations, but into a diabolical barbarism, conscious of

Crimes determined to take place engender all they need: victims, circumstances, pretexts, opportunities.

Since man's greatest crime on earth Is the fatal fact of birth — Sin supreme without appeal.

Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything," said Sheriff Red Jetty. "It can just ruin a day.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

He] did not understand women. It wasn't the way bartenders or comedians didn't understand women, it was the way poor people didn't understand the economy. You could stand outside the Girard Bank Building every day of your life and never guess anything about what went on in there. That's why, in their hearts, they'd always rather stick up a 7-Eleven.

Kill a Montanan, you got to cut off their head, bury it where they can't find it.

serial killings were something else—something that happened only in America, like unemployment and homelessness and corruption—the kind of things that they showed you on the television news or that you read about in the international pages of Pravda.

Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business.

It had to be done, they were determined about that; some attempt had to be made to break the cycle of crime and poverty.

the only useful thing we did for the average citizen by then was to hand out official crime numbers for insurance claims.

Okay, people," Kiera announced, with a grossly stressed American twang. "This is a stickup. Don't nobody move, and shove your valuables in this here sack.

material motivations for murder (in fact, I contend that they were secondary to ideological motives).

I just hope I die naturally before somebody breaks into my house and beats me to death for whatever I happen to have in my wallet, it's just a race between the one and the other for me.

He remembered a conversation he'd once had with a Chief Constable some years back, when he asked the Chief if in his experience he believed there was such a thing as the 'perfect murder'. The Chief had replied that there was. 'It's the one we never hear about,' he said.

Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.

If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.

If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,

If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.