Crime Quote by David Hewson Download Open image ““It's so much easier to define crime than it is to put your finger on justice.”” — David Hewson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Justice
“Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
“In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
“It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.” — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“That's what you need to be writing about. Not the increased crime rate, but the increased tolerance for criminals to do whatever they want… — Diane Moore Copy Share Image
“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.” — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.” — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.” — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“In his shabby jeans Vos never thought of himself as old. Nor did most of those he met as far as he could work… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image