Crime Quotes

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Crime is sexy.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

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

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.

The crime of loving is forgetting.