Crime Quotes · Page 119

“Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.”

— B. Barmanbek

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima”

— Alfred Hitchcock

If loving you was a crime, I would have been the most wanted criminal. (:

— Anonymous

“Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime'.”

— Oscar Wilde

Let's commit the perfect crime, I'll steal your heart and you'll steal mine.

— Anonymous

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the…

— Laura Lippman

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians…

— Max Blumenthal

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element,…

— Elizabeth Strout

The fantasy that accompanies and generates the anticipation that precedes the crime is always more stimulating than the immediate aftermath of the…

— Ted Bundy

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion…

— J. Jayalalithaa

I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I…

— Steven Hatfill

“Is it a crime to be strong?' That's something you might have asked. And I would have answered by asking the opposite…

— Naoyuki Ochiai

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes,…

— Dev Hynes

From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to…

— Hugo Black

“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster…

— Michael Salter

On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is…

— Donald E. Westlake

A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that…

— Mike Farrell

We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and…

— Jan Brewer

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning…

— Benjamin Franklin

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's…

— Henning Mankell

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

— Alastair Reynolds

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni

“We judge those who are guilty only of seeing the world differently from the rest. That's our crime.”

— Stela Brinzeanu

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

— Deborah Moggach

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

— Fela Kuti

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

— Oscar Wilde

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

— Paul Simon

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

— Nancy Farmer

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

— Girish Karnad

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

— Preet Bharara

“I'm not a criminal,” said Paddington, hotly. “I'm a bear!”

— Michael Bond

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

— Howard Tayler

“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.”

— Leon Bloy

“Release the son from the crimes of the father. Civilized law decrees it. We”

— Ray Buckley

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf