Crime Quotations

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

I spent years only ever reading horror and then trying to write horror - and deep down, a horror writer is still what I'd love to be. But it wasn't until I started writing crime that things began to work for me.

When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative.

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

I want a partner in crime and a Bonnie to my Clyde. I've just been so focused on my career. Women don't like being number two, so I've been glad to keep my distance so I could focus on me, get my life together and take care of my mom without disappointing the woman I love.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's true crime in the upper Midwest, and I can tell stories from any era of that. Maybe they connect to the first season or the movie, or maybe they don't. It's just a style of storytelling. We're under the auspices of being a true story that isn't true.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.