American Quote by Stephen Hunter

You are punished only when you are not performing as per expectation, and not because you belong to a particular religion, caste, or creed.…

— Farah Khan

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

— Andrew Vachss

“If we punished only the crimes we could prove, we would not enjoy the pleasure of dragging our fellow human beings to the scaffold…

— Marquis de Sade

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

— Horace

“We judge those who are guilty only of seeing the world differently from the rest. That's our crime.”

— Stela Brinzeanu

“Every human being makes mistakes and does things they’re not proud of. They can be everyday, or they can be catastrophic. And the unfortunate…

— Piper Kerman

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the…

— Anonymous

“The world of French crime films is a particular place, informed by the French love for Hollywood film noir, a genre they identified and…

— Roger Ebert

“We Americans seem to derive a great deal of pleasure out of punishing those who fail to measure up to our standards of morality…

— Neal Boortz

“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth,…

— Christopher Fowler

“The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal,” said Giles gloomily. “That’s why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.”

— Agatha Christie

Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used as an…

— Bari Weiss