Quotes About Crime

Don't you read mystery novels?" "Not very often. Anyway, what does that mean, 'mystery novel'? What is a 'detective novel'?

Incest is a crime committed against someone, a crime from which many victims never recover.

The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, approximately 15,000 to 36,000 white women have been raped by black men every year, while, on average, zero black women are raped by black men. (The Department of Justice uses 0 to denote fewer than ten victims.

Somebody's noticing the immigrant crime wave: Google illegal alien crime and you'll get more than 2 million hits. Google immigrant crime and you'll get 40 million. Only our government and media refuse to notice. Then they turn around and denounce anyone else's estimate, saying: You don't know that. So tell us! We "don't know that" only because the people in a position to know have decided to keep it secret.

A sixteen-year-old girl at her homecoming dance was gang-raped and left for dead because the Democrats need more voters. We could save a lot of soul-searching about "our" violent culture if journalists didn't hide the fact that gang rapes are generally committed by people who are not from our culture.

For being found guilty of a savage attack on a female jogger that only by the grace of God didn't kill her, the defendants were each sentenced to five to ten years in prison, except Richardson, who got five to fifteen years. Former congressman Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in prison for putting campaign money in the wrong account. All

President Clinton also pardoned sixteen Puerto Rican terrorists who had set off more than a hundred bombs in New York and Chicago in the seventies and eighties, killing a half dozen people and injuring more than seventy. They hadn't even asked for pardons. If

The crime of host desecration was punished throughout Europe for centuries.

The jail sentences for these men, if they are prosecuted at all, are invariably short. Many

It is time we realized that crimes without victims are like debts without creditors. They do not even exist.

what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it.

And here it was 1988, and in Proxmire's words, the Congress had gone sound to sleep: 'We should take a special international prize for gross hypocrisy. The Senate resoundingly passes the ratification of the Genocide Treaty. We thereby tell the world that we recognize this terrible crime. Then what do we do about it? We do nothing about it. We speak loudly but carry not stick at all.

And here it was 1988, and in Proxmire's words, the Congress had gone sound to sleep: 'We should take a special international prize for gross hypocrisy. The Senate resoundingly passes the ratification of the Genocide Treaty. We thereby tell the world that we recognize this terrible crime. Then what do we do about it? We do nothing about it. We speak loudly but carry no stick at all.

All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, This

ABACTOR  (ABA'CTOR)   n.s.[Lat. abactor, a driver away.] Those who drive away or steal cattle in herds, or great numbers at once, in distinction from those that steal only a sheep or two.Blount.

he's indicted, his lawyer will cause delay after delay, and five years from now we'll

And don't miss Frank Otto, the world's most tattooed man! Held hostage in the darkest jungles of Borneo and tried for a crime he didn't commit, and his punishment? Well, folks, his punishment is written all over his body in permanent ink!

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.

I am the prosecutor. I represent the state. I am here to present to you the evidence of a crime. Together you will weigh this evidence. You will deliberate upon it. You will decide if it proves the defendant's guilt.

As Eibach and colleagues point out, almost every generation believes that art and music and the work ethic and you name it are not as good now as they used to be, the moral climate has deteriorated, children are more spoiled now than they were twenty years ago, there is more crime, et cetera,

Powerlessness and poverty increase the chances that needs are so little satisfied that crime is an irresistible temptation to actors alienated from the social order and that punishment is non-credible to actors who have nothing to lose.

I was not a murderer, but I had become an unholy liar, a shameless impostor, and a highwayman with a marked taste for expensive motor-cars.

For nothing is more dangerous than to live   where the public license of crime prevails; yea, there is no pestilence   so destructive, as that corruption of morals, which is opposed neither   by laws nor judgments, nor any other remedies.