Crime Quote by Richard North Patterson

“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Most people think of criminals as hunchbacked, cross-eyed little monsters slithering through the dark leaving a trail of slime. They're not. They're human beings.”

— George R. Dekle Sr

“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.”

— Albert Camus

“I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving some new…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

— James Q. Wilson

“Convictions and the man--it seems they're two different things in many ways. Maybe in many ways I'm guilty before them!...We're all guilty, we're all…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Of course we're Criminals

— Frank Miller

“Criminals, because they’re plagued with guilt, often will surrender and go quietly. Outlaws, because they’re pure, never will.”

— Tom Robbins

Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught…

— Sara Sheridan

“The perfect criminal, should he or she exist, would be the one who is never apprehended - indeed, the one whose crimes may be…

— Charles Stross

“Every society has the criminals that it deserves.”

— Havelock Ellis