Crime Quotes - Page 19

If we get used to life that is the crime.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10 years to 20 years, when 5 years would be enough. Okay. The deterrent value, the additional amount of leverage that you get over a criminal to keep them from breaking the law in the first place, associated with making the sentences longer, is de minimous; it's essentially nothing.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

The result [of Hillary Clinton policy] will be millions more illegal immigrants; thousands of more violent, horrible crimes; and total chaos and lawlessness. That's what's going to happen, as sure as you're standing there.

Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at All.

Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.