Quotes About Crime

I asked him if there was any effective treatment for people like Bundy. "He paused for a moment and said, 'Only a sledgehammer between the eyes.

Dostoyevsky knew a lot but not everything. He, for instance, thought that if you kill a human you'll turn into Raskolnikov. But we know now that one can kill five - ten, one hundred people - and go to the theatre in the evening.

The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.

The Rosie Gilmour thrillers The Dead Won't Sleep To Tell the Truth Screams in the Dark Betrayed A Cold Killing Rough Cut Kill Me Twice

It's like something out of the Krays.

From 1949 onward, any discussion of strike action was considered an "antidemocratic" crime against the state, and workers could be expelled from the party even for suggesting

Lenin's vision of labor camps as a special form of punishment for a particular sort of bourgeois "enemy" sat well with his other beliefs about crime and criminals. On the one hand, the first Soviet leader felt ambivalent about the jailing and punishment of traditional criminals—thieves, pickpockets, murderers—whom he perceived as potential allies.

Who told me this (apart from everyone?)- that a man takes his pleasure and gives only pain. That sex is a kind of punishment, and this punishment is perfect because it fits the crime so well. Here. This is what you get for wanting. Imagine my surprise. ...it was like being a plane all your life and not knowing you could fly. Dubliners talk to each other very easily. We talk as though getting back to it, after some interruption.

A thief is a thief is a thief.

Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one!

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

'Eastern Promises' is great.

I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.

The EPA must be forbidden to seize or destroy the property of any person until and unless such person has been found guilty of a crime in a court of law.

My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose. That's a lot of ground to cover, so I might as well begin.

My true passion is in the prosecution of criminal cases.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

I was a prosecutor for 25 years. I saw so many 15, 16, even 20 year-olds who could not read, had little hope that they would ever find work, faced more challenges than opportunities in life, dropped out of school at some point, and turned to crime.