Crime Quotes · Page 98

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

— Denise Mina

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

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Pat Brown

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

— Priti Patel

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

— Saul Bellow

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

— Thomas Paine

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

— Tony Benn

“Your mind is your playground or your prison, and you get to choose which one it will be.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to…

— Freda Adler

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must…

— Denise Mina

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

— Juvenal

If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country…

— Michael Bloomberg

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime,…

— Eric Weiner

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in…

— William Eggleston

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not…

— P.D. Ouspensky

“That is not simply the careless language of sexual violence. That is the criminal language of sexual violence.”

— Roxanne Gay

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them.…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Many times, I left the prison thinking, 'I'm smart. I can make it. I won't get caught up again.' But you get…

— Susan Burton

“Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a…

— Steven Pinker

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has…

— Steven Pinker

“No more self-defeating device could be discovered than the one society has developed in dealing with the criminal. It proclaims his career…

— Frank Tannenbaum

But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central…

— Edward Norton

You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a…

— Linda Fairstein

“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a…

— Baron D'Holbach

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

— Philip K. Dick

“Violence is there because you have not grown your potential for love; it is the absence of love.”

— Osho

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

— Sissela Bok

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

— Stefan Zweig

“She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.”

— J.D. Robb

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

— Bernhard Goetz

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Our love like this, grown while we committed crimes—it's going to destroy us.”

— Kristin Halbrook

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

— Lord Hailsham

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

— Joe Abercrombie

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White…

— Ralph Abernathy

When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

— Leo Tolstoy

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Theodore Roosevelt