Crime Quotes - Page 25

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

The more welfare, the more crime.

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether torture is acceptable or whether it works. It should be simply seen as a war crime. There's no other position on torture.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.