Top 1200 Crime Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.
I'm most interested in people who've lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction.
We loved 'The Crown.' And 'The Killing' and 'The Fall' with Gillian Anderson. All those crime shows are always super fun.
I like to read all kinds of books ranging from spiritual, philosophical, to best-sellers and crime thrillers.
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.
What is violent about 'Supari' is the thought that the guy who is sitting next to you in college could be already sucked into a world of crime.
Very little other than Elmore Leonard's crime writing inspiring me on my Batman run.
As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.
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.
The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.
Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.
Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.
Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.
You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.
The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I miss appointments without it.
The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.
Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.
The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.
The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
Our streets should be safe at all times. You shouldn't have to worry about things like knife or other crime.
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.
I am thrilled to join the extraordinary team at Crime Watch Daily. It's a perfect platform for enterprise reporting.
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.
The wider public is clueless about the social breakdown in high-crime areas and its effect on street life.
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
I think it's ridiculous. I'm very much opposed to sanctuary cities. They breed crime, there's a lot of problems. If we have to, we'll defund.
One way to reduce crime and save lives is to target criminals who use guns with tough mandatory minimums.
We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamization is not a crime.
Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.
I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers
My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.
The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.
The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well.
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
