Quotes About Crime

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.

We can't be dependent on the police all the time. We can't turn a blind eye to the crime taking place in the country because we are personally not affected.

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.

Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back, the detective and the criminal.

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.

The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.

Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime.

I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

If you don't start targeting what's feeding crime then we are going to throw good money into a bad scenario.

Targets don't fight crime; they hinder the fight against crime.

One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That is why indiscriminate bombing, let alone the deliberate targeting of residential areas or agricultural infrastructure, is considered a war crime.

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population.