Crime Quotations | Page 2

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time,

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas.

With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

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

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

the person responsible for this crime is quite human. He is a man that embodies much of the best that we call human.

The perpetrators of this heinous crime shall be brought to justice,

We're in possession of irrefutable documentary evidence that shows Reade was not there when she says she was raped. I don't believe a crime occurred, but if it did, he couldn't possibly have been there.

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

When you take the evidence at the crime scene and the pending child custody suit, we thought there was probable cause to charge her with murder, and the judge agreed,

There is no level of crime that is so bad... that rights no longer exist.

Until there is some direct thing done to prevent crime before it happens, it is going to keep happening. If a curfew can prevent crime before it happens, so be it.

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

We're going to put those new deputies in the hot spots to ensure that we can keep crime down and answer calls for service.

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

We grow up corporate, not civic. For example, we were led to believe that most crime comes from the street.

We believe this young man has committed a serious crime deserving of punishment, but not the loss of his life.

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Unfortunately, no tangible breakthrough was made with regard to crime in the army, where hazing accounts for 25% of crimes. Altogether, 2,609 servicemen were convicted of crimes of this kind.

Unfortunately in tourism, perception is reality. Because if a tourist or visitor perceives it unsafe they are not going to come. So we've got to deal with both. I think the reality is we have a crime problem and we have to deal with it.

Usually a crime like this happens very rarely in Brighton. It happens I don't ever recall three suspects attacking one female ever before.

We're going to continue until our dying day to make Royal Caribbean accountable and to make sure the perpetrators of the crime are brought to justice. They didn't preserve that crime scene, and now six months later there have been no arrests.

Vehicle burglary clearly was the category driving the overall property crime increase.

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

With this information, we can effectively direct our crime prevention units as we work to keep our schools and communities safe.

Would I love every person in this crime to receive life in the penitentiary? Absolutely. But we have had to work with the first two defendants to be able to achieve even charging Ms. Burwell.

would be something that would help me develop a story wherein a very competent woman officer is transferred into a precinct where there is high crime and she is forced to work with an officer who is a member of this particular group, 'Men Against Women.'

Work for the formation of the wildlife crime cell is in progress.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

We have no idea where the shooting took place. We couldn't find the actual crime scene.

We have moved to begin the process of revoking the probation based on the seriousness of the underlying crime that placed him on probation. It will be up to a judge to decide what sanctions should be imposed.

We want to try to apprehend those people and take action against them for the most serious crime for which they are eligible for prosecution,

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

We'll see what kind of victim it was, if it was a crime of opportunity or if someone who went out to lure a child.

We are also providing additional, enhanced services for gun crime victims and witnesses involved in these lengthy and large gun-crime prosecutions,

Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.