Quotes About Crime

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

I understand our story now. We are criminals. A band of four.

the FBI pursued Dalitz for 50 years, but he was never convicted of anything.

The American gambling industry has increasingly become more complex since Wolfshiem/Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919. In fact, Rothstein inspired future generations of Jewish mobsters that built an empire of crime.

To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

But the lovers get away unpunished and consequently recommend crime.

Kiss Me Deadly by Mickey Spillane

Any new corpses today?" "None yet." "Pity. I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.

Drugs and stealing go together like bagels and lox.

Thus, white fear can be understood as something anticipatory, a fear just waiting to be expressed. It isn't based in any actual threat of harm. Instead, the idea of black violence or crime does all the work. The mere possibility of danger is enough to motivate us to act as if we are in immediate danger.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Scotland Yard isn't called in nearly as often as detective novelists seem to think

Some people really think that great wealth makes crime respectable, and if it is pointed out to a wealthy but dishonest man, that he is merely a common thief, and if in addition, the fact is proved to everybody's satisfaction, his anger is noticeable.

EDNA BUCHANAN

The man at the keyboard frowned. The green dot moved with the car, miles away. I watched the three detectives glued to the screen. This, I thought, is the police work of the future

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.

As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days, when education and good manners are not the monopoly of a few, but universal, such atrocities are scarcely ever heard of.

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

Can any man doubt whether it is better to be a great statesman or a common thief?

I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble... and I'm too old to ask for that. Shit, I haven't even booked Tommy the Face in two years. I'm turning into a jack-off idiot.

The thief's underworld, which is different from that of the mafiosi, gang bangers, and racketeers, has many adages and observations. If you can't do the time don't mess with crime is the best-known. Another is: A thief's nerve is in direct proportion to his financial condition. Or: Hard times make hard people.