Crime Quotes - Page 10

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

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

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

to teach without zest is a crime.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had to do if I wanted to write a sequel...but, you know, people still have to read and enjoy this book, or it's a moot point.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can get. But, the fact that the government facilitated the invention of evidence in order to convict someone of a capital crime, that is something that should concern everybody.