Crime Quote by P. D. James Download Open image “Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.” — P. D. James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Murder Reparations Unique Victim
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
In this country, the only people who get punished for crime are the victims. — Joe Don Baker Copy Share Image
“It is possible to establish zero tolerance for murder as a solution to anything” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens. — Emmanuel Teney Copy Share Image
How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic? — P. D. James Copy Share Image
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out,… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed. — P. D. James 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