Top 1200 Crime Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.
Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.
Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Where ex-offenders are genuinely trying to turn a corner and live free from crime, it is vital we do all we can to support them.
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.
As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.
Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.
Playing the role of Vartika in 'Delhi Crime' was one of the most exhausting, consuming and enriching experiences of my career.
For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.
Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.
We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.
I think when people accuse you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard.
We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another.
I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.
The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.
Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century.
We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.
The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
I love Walter Mosley and Robert Parker crime novels. And I read a lot of music reviews.
When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows that.
Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime
Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.
It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.
I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park.
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.
Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.
I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill
That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.
We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.
Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.
Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.
Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
If you don't start targeting what's feeding crime then we are going to throw good money into a bad scenario.
It is not a crime to build revolutionary resistance against the single greatest enemy of the people of the world: U.S. imperialism.
When I was growing up in Salford, I was always in trouble. It was stuff like petty crime and all sorts of things.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
