Crime Quotes - Page 17

most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain, who in my view is the most neglected writer in American literature.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

If you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.

Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?

You have to be patient. Litigants are emotionally involved - they're suing or being sued, or they've been in an accident or they're charged (with a crime). They are not very objective about their situation.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.