“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion” — Alessandro Manzoni Copy Share Image
It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Let's commit the perfect crime, I'll steal your heart and you'll steal mine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If loving you was a crime, I would have been the most wanted criminal. (: — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
“When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly,… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
“I’m just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
“She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all of its… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Crime, crime, rockin' like Janet Reno. Time, time, eighteen and life in Chino. — Offspring Copy Share Image
Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb. — Leonard Robert Davids Copy Share Image
We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
