Crime Quotes - Page 26

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes." But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel."

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex in an alley, that's not a crime. That's a coincidence.

I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.