You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Criminals should be hung like championship banners—proudly, and in an effort to sell tickets.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else. — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As a former New Yorker, I understand crime's hold over an electorate's emotions. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute… In connection with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
What is the difference between me and a criminal? My crimes were not caught. Those of us whose crimes were not caught… — Nana Patekar Copy Share Image
When a novel is based on an actual crime, it should do much more than loosely fictionalize it. The novel must stand… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
On TV, the nitty-gritty of trials takes place between commercial breaks, whereas, of course, reality is infinitely more complex. True crime also… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
“She smiled as though someone had just offered her, the oldest virgin in town, a fully functioning Kingsize Vibro vibrator and a… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that a crime was committed?” the female reporter asked in that excessively empathetic way that’s designed to make inferior… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and… — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
There was a really monstrous and almost literal genocide in the Mayan area, specifically under Ríos Montt. By now it has been… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
Barack Obama thinks this country is a crime. Obama thinks this country is a walking, living crime, the way it's treated poor… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I'm with you my whole world is like a fairytale. But in reality - it's a crime. — Yvonne Urlanda Copy Share Image
You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character. — Jodie Whittaker Copy Share Image
Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say.” — Kathleen Flinn Copy Share Image
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment. — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
