Crime famous quotes
05-15-2025
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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
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.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
-- African Spir -
The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.
-- Alan Autry -
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
-- Albert Camus -
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
-- Albert Camus -
... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
-- Albert Camus -
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
-- Albert Camus -
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.
-- Ali Gomaa -
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
-- Allen Tucker -
Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.
-- Amy Dickinson -
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism,
-- Andrew Dominik -
The crime film is the most honest American film.
-- Andrew Dominik -
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
-- Andrew Marvell -
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
-- Andrew Young -
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
-- Angela Davis -
Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.
-- Angelo Scola -
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
-- Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe -
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
-- Ariana Franklin -
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
-- Aristotle -
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
-- Aristotle -
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.
-- Asa Larsson -
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
-- Azar Nafisi -
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
-- Barbara Amiel -
illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
-- Barry Farber -
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime
-- Ben Mezrich -
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
-- Benigno Aquino III -
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.
-- Bernhard Goetz -
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
-- Bess Myerson -
Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"
-- Bex Taylor-Klaus -
The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.
-- Bex Taylor-Klaus -
We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
-- Bianca Jagger -
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
-- Bias of Priene -
Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.
-- Bill James -
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
-- Bill James -
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
-- Blaise Pascal -
Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
-- Bob Hope -
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
-- Bobby Sands -
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
-- Brendan Behan -
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.
-- Brent Weeks -
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.
-- Carl Safina -
In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
-- Carrie P. Meek -
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
-- Cesare Beccaria -
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
-- Cesare Beccaria -
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
-- Cesare Beccaria -
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
-- Charles A. Reich -
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
-- Charles Churchill -
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
-- Charles Eliot Norton -
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
-- Charles Evans Hughes -
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
If you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey.
-- Charles Nqakula -
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
-- Charles Sturt -
The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.
-- Chester Gould -
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
-- Christiane Amanpour -
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
-- Clarence Darrow -
What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.
-- Colley Cibber -
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.
-- Cory Doctorow -
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.
-- Cyprian -
The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.
-- Cyrus Vance, Jr. -
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
-- Dan Barker -
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes
-- Daniel Defoe -
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature
-- Daphne Zuniga -
Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
-- David Brin -
Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
-- David Icke -
I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.
-- David Limbaugh -
By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
-- David Mitchell -
Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.
-- David Shuster -
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
-- Denise Mina -
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.
-- Denise Mina -
I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime.
-- Dennis Nilsen -
After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.
-- Diane Mott Davidson -
In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.
-- Diane Mott Davidson -
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.
-- Dick Francis -
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.
-- Don Roff
