Quotes About Crime

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.

I thought 'The Bank Job' was a really quality movie.

For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

Questioning someone who is acting as a lookout for a burglary might not result in an arrest, because there is not enough evidence of a crime in progress to support one, but that intervention will likely avert the break-in.

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.

The crime bill basically incentivized the prison system. There were quotas, mandatory minimums. You have to serve 85 percent of your time, so it is guaranteeing that bodies will always be locked up. And that went mostly towards minority communities and poor communities, where crime is more rampant.

There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

Gangster films are exciting.

I like gangster movies, personally.

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

I've always loved the genre of gangster films.

We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

It's been said that Generation X should get a life. Well, in 'Bottle Rocket,' they get a life of crime. Or at least try.

One of my friends is serving 33 years. Armed robbery. Those are the things you should rap about. I don't think you should glorify it at all. I don't really glorify it. I just talk about it. There's nothing special about that life.

I love 'The Godfather.'