Crime Quote by Elizabeth Garden

“It wasn’t that they participated in criminal activity. It was that their activities could be construed as criminal.”

— Kristen Ashley

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Frank Tannenbaum

“Thus you see having committed a Crime once, is a sad Handle to the committing of it again; whereas all the Regret, and Reflections…

— Daniel Defoe

“He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.”

— Graham Greene

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck

“Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to…

— Cristiane Serruya

“He was so effectually screened by his great wealth that he was called to no account for his crimes, not even for murder.”

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“He is guilty, but he will be acquitted, from motives of humanity, in accordance with the new ideas, the new sentiments that had come…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.”

— Émile Durkheim

“There was a difference between violent, destructive crimes and bending rules that were prejudiced or predatory to start.”

— Angela Flournoy