Quotes About Crime

The more we tolerate crime, the more crime we will have.

world of poverty and hunger and crime and disease and greed and dishonesty and prejudice and war and genocide and religious bigotry and runaway population growth and abuse of the environment and immigration strife and you-get-the-leftovers educational policies and a hundred other horrors?

You don't have to be a college graduate to murder someone." "Thank you for making the jury aware of that, Lieutenant. I'm sure they had no idea.

Of course, we can't ask them, because murder victims are notoriously tight-lipped.

How come joggers always seem to be the ones to find bodies? Makes me glad I don't exercise.

Until the truth about the apartment bombings is known, the true nature of Russia's postcommunist history cannot be established. At the same time, failing to react to the evidence that the bombings were a government-planned mass crime leaves such provocation as a standing temptation for government leaders. If those responsible are not identified and punished, it will be assumed by those fighting for power in Russia that provocations are a legitimate way to win elections.

Every priest who hears confessions is, by definition, an accessory to ever crime he hears about and does not report to the authorities.

Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.

Y]ou are ... entrusted with the pursuit of that most extraordinary of crimes: the theft of a human life. You speak for the dead. You avenge those lost to the world.

If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?

In any case where there is no apparent suspect, the crime lab will produce no valuable evidence. In those cases where a suspect has already confessed and been identified by at least two eyewitnesses, the lab will give you print hits, fiber evidence, blood typings and a ballistic match.

you believe a little shithead like this is able to stay on the run for so long?" McLarney declares, returning from yet another unsuccessful turn-up of a Milligan hideout. "You shoot a guy, hey," the sergeant adds with a shrug. "You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it's time to admit you have a problem.

This is CID homicide, mister, and neither heat nor rain nor gloom of night will stay these men from their rendezvous with callousness. Cruel jokes? The cruelest. Sick humor? The sickest. And, you ask, how can they possibly do it? Volume. That's right, volume. They won't be outsold, they won't be undersold; they will solve no crime before its time.

Mr Erstwhile was found lying on the floor of his surgery in a huge pool of blood. The dental probe was embedded deep in his heart…

Detective Bone

But how had he died? Zoe knew that Gingernut was very young, even in hamster years. Could this be a hamster murder? she wondered. But what kind of person would want to murder a defenceless little hamster? Well, before this story is over, you will know. And you will also know that there are people capable of doing much, much worse. The most evil man in the world is lurking somewhere in this very book. Read on, if you dare…

Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

I don't know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.

It's hard to sleep when you have thirty two million quids worth of stolen jewellery hidden under the mattress.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.