Crime Quote by Martin Cruz Smith Download Open image ““Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.”” — Martin Cruz Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime
“we have no idea anymore what it means to feel guilty. The Communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them. Murderers have the excuse… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There were no disagreements in Stalin’s universe, only heresies; no critics, only enemies; no errors, only crimes. The trials served both to illustrate Stalin’s… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed. — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
“I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking,' said Allan. 'What,' said Stalin angrily. 'Why don't you shave off that moustache?' With that the dinner was over, because the… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“We have no idea any more what it means to feel guilty. The communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them, murdurers have the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“Much later, while I was recovering from being shot, I realized that the hunt for the last great Nazi war criminal had started because… — David Healey Copy Share Image
“Stalin has stolen more than lands. Hannelore, he has stolen human dignity. I see it in their forlorn eyes and broken posture. It's all… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god.… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a… — Martin Cruz Smith 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
